I'm not an expert, but I think that that is an oversimplification. Communism, as a theory predicted a transitionary period before the ultimate stateless utopia

I'm not an expert, but I think that that is an oversimplification. Communism, as a theory predicted a transitionary period before the ultimate stateless utopia. A communist state could also be defined as 'any state with the long term objective of bringing about communist utopia'.