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Merely professing to follow something does not make it so; the People’s Republic of China isn’t a people’s republic, now is it? My conjecture wasn’t merely that, as of yet, there have been no communist countries, it was that a communist country is impossible, and that term has been born out of large parts of the Western World believing about half of Soviet propaganda. One-party rule has nothing to do with whether a country can be considered communist or not. You’re right that a country can certainly be socialist, though whether class-divided, exploitative, non-democratic countries practicing state capitalism are socialist or not is a whole different discussion.</p>