Talk:List of current communist states

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This article was nominated for deletion on 2008-02-21. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

China and Vietnam CANNOT be regarded as "Communist states". These countries are ruled by phony "Communists" who have BETRAYED the working class and have completed the restoration of capitalism. They are CAPITALIST countries, with a capitalist economy and authoritarian governements, much like Nazi Germany or Chile under Pinochet. RaduFlorianRaduFlorian 06:22, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm very much inclined to agree. What, after all, is an NPOV definition of a "communist state"? Communism is not, necessarily, the same as an iron-fisted dictatorship or authoritarian government or whatever (though the Soviet Union was a famous example, communism originally intended to make society better, not kill millions), and this article should reflect that. It should also reflect the opinion that there are no current communist states or that no communist states have ever existed. Only then can this article be called NPOV.199.126.134.144 (talk) 04:46, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

So what are we to do then, re-name this as "List of current phony communist states"? Even though they are run by parties claiming to be communist, it is as it is. A truly communist state in it's purest form will never come about anyways. That-Vela-Fella (talk) 22:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)