I love when western lefties argue that certain places are not communist. It's like people saying Obama isn't black or that LBJ wasn't a dick. Do they call themselves communist? Is the state "all powerful"? Does the state own or control all the important industry? Is the local chapter of the Communist Party the only "party" and it runs the country?
Just because you can't check off every box doesn't mean Sean Connery isn't a true Scotsman.
The one thing that virtually all strains of modern communist have in common is that they insist communism has never been
really tried.