del949:
I often agree with you carryfast but on this occasion you are completely wrong.
The chinese and the russians have NEVER been communist except in name, nor has any other nation on the planet.
Communism is an ideal that does not translate into human beings.
I doubt that there has ever been , is or will be a true communist state on the planet.
The nearest mankind has got is in the Kibbutz type organisations.
The whole issue is (a lot) more complicated than that Del.
From my own point of view I’ve been there,seen it,supported it and then,just like George Orwell,came to the conclusion that the the idea was an experiment that went wrong and should have been abandoned by all of it’s supporters when Trotsky was murdered.
I was one of those who got disillusioned with the idea soon after seeing it for what it really was and then realised The America of the 1960’s showed to way to go. 
www2.census.gov/prod2/popscan/p60-051.pdf
elcoushistory.tripod.com/economics1960.html
As for Trotsky his epitaph would fit that old saying the road to hell is paved with good intentions and that’s where the idea should stay.Buried with him.

The fact is the description now can only be related to Communism as it actually stands in practice and I’ll stand by my idea that what we’re seeing now is just what Stalin and Mao intended.Infiltration of the western governments by the political Frankenstein monster that Trotsky realised that he’d helped to create (having chosen the wrong side between the Bolsheviks and the Economists during his time in the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party) and then tried,and failed,to stop before it was too late.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokopovich
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International
youtube.com/watch?v=gXZVhKvv … re=related
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_ … ts_of_1989
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_ … _Communism
lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis45.html
larussophobe.wordpress.com/putinmurders/