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It looks like the "well the USSR isn't _real_ communism!" card is still trying to be played today. And it is just as ridiculous.
by protonfish 11y ago
It looks like the "well the USSR isn't _real_ communism!" card is still trying to be played today. And it is just as ridiculous.
- garrettgrimsley 11y agoWhy is that ridiculous? The USSR was neither a classless nor stateless society. The means of production were owned by the state, nationalized, rather than owned by the workers, socialized. The USSR was about as communist as the United States Postal Service. A reading of Marx, Engels, or Goldman should make this evident.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThe USSR is, at best, an example of a particular kind of Communism -- Leninism -- from which most attempted implementations of "Communism" have derived. Leninism rejected central structural elements of Marx & Engels Communism, as well as associated environmental prerequisites, in order to come up with something that fit the particular circumstances in Russia at the time -- for which Marx and Engels' model was not a fit. Its an exercise in semantic line drawing as to whether it really counts as "Communism" at all, but its certainly a very different thing than Marx and Engels' Communism. (Leninism is at least as different from Marx and Engels' Communism as modern Western mixed economies are from the same reference point.)