venezuela is a bunch of thugs and narcos turned totalitarians secured only by a based that is employed and supported by never ending petro dollars, there's nothing communistic about venezuela besides the propaganda bs that has to be regurgitated else risk getting fired and/or denied access to buy a half kilo of sugar or bread or whatever, there's no ideological support, people don't believe that shit they are just forced to support it at rallies seen by the outside world or get cut off
there's no communism anymore, it is a failed human experiment, it died a long time ago, not china not vietnam not venezuela not eritrea, just a few authoritarians who control the monopoly of violence via military and secret police to keep them wealthy, all the rest of the population just try to survive in any capitalistic enterprise they can make work, believe me within such countries there's no sense of communism among the people, it's just an image portrait outwards