> Any communist/marxist country (basically any country with the word "Democratic" in its name)
Democratic is much older then marxism. Dont spread lies.
> was basically state capitalist
Revolutionarys with the EXPRES goal of marism took power and then transform them self into dictatorships. These dictatorships are then named 'state capitalist' to avoid self reflection on the marxist parts. How can a system that was created by stealing and centralising everybodys private property be capitalist, thats the exact opposite.
Just because the state is dominated by a elite and this elite has simular powers over property (right to profit, controll and transact) it is not in any way capitalist.
> people as inefficient, unmotivated labor.
The labor was unmotivated and inefficient because these countrys did a horrible job at building a system that provided for the very people they clamed to protoct and thus these people were very much in the mood for another change. As response to this these marxist revolutionary quickly turn into 'state capitalist'. The Communist policys of 1919-1921 where so terrible that lenin, trosky and bukharin agree that they had to come up with something diffrent as fast as possible, whitch lead Bukahrin to rewritte the hole system in the next 2 month and the NEP was born. This NEP was very much a return to pre 1917 (and people in ruissa had jokes about this) and it was a system that was completly unable to reach the partys goal (rapid industrialisation) anytime soon.
So this is just on example, Bukahrin had for years thought about how he would like a economic system to work, in a couple of month in 1921 he rewrote his ideals to something that was in many ways a return to zarist economics. Ideal fall out of the window when you need to stay in power and that is exactly why 'real marixm tm' has never been tried in the view of marxists.