Counterpoint - there are no communists alive, for they have died in the past actually fighting for the cause. All you have right now are online larpers (me included), real life groups grifting (i.e. trots whose whole existence is to sell stuff and get their money up) or book clubs pretending to be revolutionary. There's no real working class movement, the class is still reeling from defeat a century ago, ML necrophilia and red scares.

It's hard to forget, but the communist analysis is that the state emerges from material social conditions and that if your goal is to abolish the state it must be through the changing of material social conditions that are entwined with the existence of a state in the present. Which is why it's a doctrine of the process of liberating and not "push the communism button please"

Holy shit I did not know about that Furr guy