The USSR was definitely more communist in the early days when they had workers councils' and stuff. Most of that was disbanded under Stalin though. Most nomina

The USSR was definitely more communist in the early days when they had workers councils' and stuff. Most of that was disbanded under Stalin though. Most nominally communist countries have elements of communism even if they are autocratic at heart, and that often forms part of their "Lockean" social contract - e.g. in North Korea, schools, hospitals, universities and apartments are all provided free by the government. In North Korea, protection from invasion forms the larger part of the social contract (they officially renounced communism a few years ago I think) and in China, cradle-to-grave protection (the iron rice bowl) has been supplanted by the promise of always increasing standards of living.