- Read Engels' pamphlet On Authority.
- Laos, Cuba and Vietnam are doing very well considering the constant threat of imperialism, and genocidal US sanctions in Cuba's case.
- Venezuela is not communist, but the government is guided by Bolivarian socialism and is doing fairly well considering, again, the genocidal US sanctions.
- The US does not have a democratic government by any stretch of the imagination.
- I'm not aware of any Indian state called "Perula". If you mean Kerala, it's still subject to the national government and therefore extremely limited.
- Communism can't feasibly be implemented in only one country, and certainly not while imperialism still exists. There is an absolutely necessary transitional stage, the dictatorship of the proletariat, which currently exists in all AES countries.
- "Communist state" is an oxymoron.
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