A communist state is a state with a form of government characterized by single-party rule or dominant-party rule of a communist party and a professed allegiance to a Leninist or Marxist-Leninist communist ideology as the guiding principle of the state. Before, this meant public ownership of all or most means of production by the Communist party-run state is necessary for the possibility to further the interest of the working class; today, a commu...
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A communist state is a state with a form of government characterized by single-party rule or dominant-party rule of a communist party and a professed allegiance to a Leninist or Marxist-Leninist communist ideology as the guiding principle of the state. Before, this meant public ownership of all or most means of production by the Communist party-run state is necessary for the possibility to further the interest of the working class; today, a communist state, as in China and Vietnam for instance, can exist alongside a mixed economy. According to Marxist-Leninists, the state is a tool in the hands of the ruling class, which in a socialist society is the working class, so a socialist state is, according to Leninists, a state of the working class.
In practice, communist states do not refer to themselves as communist states. They do not do so to disguise the fact that the ruling party is communist, however, but because they do not consider themselves in the present time a communist society....
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