State and Communal Socialism

I discovered that site a while back, and was really quite interested by this article: http://links.org.au/node/1795 It essentially covers how communialism is coming back in present day Venezuela. State socialism has failed time and time again in the past, with Russia and China being the prominent example. After thinking about this, I think the main reason is the existence of a vanguard party of "professional" revolutionaries. If Russia had revolted and established a "socialist" state up immediately after the first onslaught of revolution (ie the massive strikes established all over Russia which initially deposed the Czar) without the Bolshevik party leading the new government would there be any change in it ending up just being a state run version of the individual capitalist framework? Now don't think I'm a staunch supporter of state-socialism, I'm not. It's simply an idea amongst many. The other aspect is taking into account something like the Paris Commune, a truly exceptional example of working socialism --that is until the rest of France noticed and tore it down. Which brings up why communal societies might fail. They're established in the framework of capitalism and thus capitalism might very well go in and reseize what it thinks is rightfully its. However, what happens when socialism establishes itself at both a state and local level? Watching Venezuela in the next few years should be at the forefront of socialist parties around the world. We might finally have a solution.