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Not all communist states were socialists. For example, the People's Republic of Angola declared itself a people's democratic state. The class form of the state is not synonymous with state type, for example, a people's democratic state could have, according to M-L theory, a revolutionary-democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry and a dictatorship of the proletariat. A socialist state was ruled by a dictatorship of the proletariat (commonly), but in 1977 the Soviet Union stated it had established a socialist state of the whole people (on the transition to a stateless and classless society the state stopped being a class dictatorship of one class).

What is my point? This article tries to be neutral by refusing to use certain terms (communist states) while also not acknowledging what Marxist-Leninists understood by terms such as socialist state and people's democratic state. TheUzbek (talk) 08:22, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs some work. The sources used could also be better. ~2025-32637-68 (talk) 20:36, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]