> which bits of the Soviet projects were targetting making everyone equal Private property of means of production and accumulation of capital were outlawed. It

> which bits of the Soviet projects were targetting making everyone equal Private property of means of production and accumulation of capital were outlawed. It was the best attempt to follow Marx tenets. > It strikes me that in all cases a portion of society wanted to impose communism, those who didn't want to give up their supremacy (of power or wealth) perverted that system. No. The latter were massacred in 1918. Then the remaining ones executed and sent each other to GuLAGs in several waves. Separation of wealth (even if minuscule on the scale of developed capitalism) appears to be an emergent property.