Kropotkin was equally as opposed to war communism as a centrally planned economy and as opposed as he would have been to the NEP. I don't think that, after thi

Kropotkin was equally as opposed to war communism as a centrally planned economy and as opposed as he would have been to the NEP. I don't think that, after thinking for a few seconds, the regular person would arrive to the conclusion that the USSR was only communist because of the name of the ruling party. I also don't agree that, if people were introduced to society like the USSR with the only exception that they had decentralized planning, would conclude that it wasn't communist anymore. Similarly a lot of people in the US have called the economic system of the AANES communist despite being neither centralized nor run by a communist party. All the people that called Bernie Sanders a communist despite him not being a member of the communist party also don't agree. Largely from, you know, collectivizing agriculture and seizing a third of the productive capital to then put it under the control of soviets. In summary I don't think that people commonly understand communism as being dependent on the name of the ruling party.