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is this a real manifestation of communism or theoretical?
Both, though I think there might be some confusion here. Communism the Mode of Production is a global, fully publicly owned economy, the "Communist" states that exist today and historically are better described as Socialist countries led by Communist Parties attempting to build towards Communism. Socialism is still based on Public Ownership as the principle aspect of the economy.
These "Communist" states are frequently referred to as "AES," or "Actually Existing Socialism," and include Cuba, the PRC, Vietnam, DPRK, Laos, the former USSR, etc.
so the only manifestations are actually socialism and have been a bit capitalisty?
The US's hegemony is a result of decades of bombing, black ops, sanctions, and embargos on non-capitalist countries that refused to kneel and kiss the ring of US oligarchs...
So yeah, countries like Vietnam and China were forced to allow US capitalism in to avoid ending up like the USSR or Cuba.
If Capitalism is so great and socialism doomed to fail, why does the US continue to embargo Cuba??? Why does the US do everything it can to ensure communist countries fail?