You hear it a lot from left-anarchists who oppose Communism as practiced by the USSR, and they mean it differently from the way the Economist means it. They wo

You hear it a lot from left-anarchists who oppose Communism as practiced by the USSR, and they mean it differently from the way the Economist means it. They would say that under the USSR, the state owned the factories but the workers had no more power than they do in a western capitalist country: like the ending of "Animal Farm".