I would say the opposite. Namely, that if a democratic worker's state, run by the workers organs in parallel with the Communist parties, has really been established, (as opposed to a vanguard-controlled "dictatorship of the proletariat") then the state (once a capitalist/bourgeois tool of oppression) becomes the
property of the people . I think this difference in attitude is extremely important, one of the biggest in Communism and one to which the variance in the fates of the nations which used them, can be strongly attributed.
This can be seen most clearly, I think, in the areas run by the Leninist Russian government of the 30s and the Anarcho-Syndicalist East-Spanish government of the 1930s. In one, the people were seen as tools of the state, to be used as the Communists saw fit, to build Socialism according to their dogma. Thusly, the worker's organs were brought under the control of government.The Trade unions and the Worker's Soviets were neutered by nationalising industry under the All-Russian Council of the Economy (VSNKh).The strong factory committee movement that had sprung up, from workers occupying workplaces, was replaced by an allegedly Communist, out/of-touch bureaucrat-class. This massive dissconcect between the actual workers and their supposed representatives", directly led to the tragi-comidic spectacle that was the 5 year plans, (where targets were set so high they were completely impossible to complete), the seven day work week, the illegality of strikes, the total lack of consumer goods, the nonsense babble of "Trotskyite wreckers", a culture of constant lying and betraying your co-workers and lots of other good stuff.
Compare that to the situation in the Syndicalist held territory's, where the CNT (itself an actual workers organ rather than the largely bourgeois Bolshevik party), actually allowed the workers to remain in direct control of the means of production, working alongside them not ordering to produce ridiculous amounts or threatening them with imprisonment. In the relatively short time it existed, In 1937, by the central government's own admission,the war industry of Catalonia (the main area of their strength) produced ten times more than the rest of Spanish industry put together and that this output could have been quadrupled if Catalonia had the access to necessary means of purchasing raw materials. All that and
more, accomplished by treating the workers as human beings, not numbers.