>. It starts with the state trying to be socialist and then "withering away" to full on communism This is too simplified to mean anything. The USSR had many so

>. It starts with the state trying to be socialist and then "withering away" to full on communism This is too simplified to mean anything. The USSR had many socialist branches, where the bolsheviks ultimately won out in a power struggle. The bolsheviks wanted state control, the citizen working for the state, while others were into having actual soviets where the citizens would've taken control of their means of production. Having a parliament and democracy was important to many of these groups (and the liberals who were also politically active). I wouldn't recommend a dictatorship, regardless if it has "of the proletariat" as a suffix.