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You're talking in theory. Communism was begun after the Russian Revolution, and initially the doctrine was followed. But, Communism cannot exist thanks to human nature. It collapsed into a totalitarian government system that expanded into an imperial spiral of control that reached many nations.
You're right about complete socialism not being able to exist with capitalism. You keep pointing to systems on the extremes and noting that they won't work. Seems like I've said that about a thousand times. Communism won't work. Pure socialism won't. Pure capitalism won't either. So, Poland was not a "communist" nation, as it falls apart shortly after creation.
The success of the West has been to stay away from extreme positions and meld a NEW system that takes away from each of the systems. Take Canada. We have a system that melds some socialist policy into a capitalist economic system, combined with a democratic political system. We use capitalism to drive economic prosperity and the taxation system to redirect income and create infrastructure. It's a complex web of intertangled stuff, but it works out pretty well in the wash.
The US does the SAME thing, but the mix is different. The most prosperous, successful nations all do it, but just balance things a little different.
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