Yep I tell people that Communism and Socialism actually end up in the long run being state run monopolies.

It is ironic that one of the boogeymen (bad things) people use against capitalism when trying to convince people to try socialism and communism is stories about some of the monopoly situations in some past capitalist environments.

Yet they are being suckered into endorsing about the most powerful forms of monopoly that we've invented as a species.