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There are no communist states anywhere, because Marx defined communism as a classless stateless society.
It would be wrong to pretend that there are currently any large scale "communist" societies in the world, the closest would probably be smaller communities like the Zapatistas or Rojava. Soviet style "communism" has always been a bastardization of all actual communist ideas and pretending, that that is the best version of communism that we could get is utterly delusional.
Because at the end of the day, Soviet Russia just replaced the bugoirsie with party officials and it was just red fascism.
There are no true societies.
That doesn't mean descriptions are not useful. There's no such thing as a capitalist society, yet communism's entire foundation is built on critiquing it.
Please elaborate?? If you make claims, that stray far from the understanding of these terms by most people, it would be really useful to know, why you see it that way.
Descriptions are only useful when they tell you anything useful about the things, they are describing. The Soviet Union was neither communist nor socialist, because the workers didn't control the means of production. The state did. This is fundamental to both of these systems. Sometimes, false labels can also be harmful, because they give the other person a false idea of what you are talking about. For example, it would be wrong and also really bad, if you were to describe the Nazis as socialists, just because they were called the "national socialists".