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> there were classes within soviet society Karl Marx's definition of communism was literally "a classless society"
by whitemary 3y ago
> there were classes within soviet society
Karl Marx's definition of communism was literally "a classless society"
- lnsru 3y agoThat’s why soviet union had communism written on the facade and caste system inside. Party members had every luxury westerners had. And stupid dissidents silently disappeared to some far far away places behind Arctic circle.
- ymolodtsov 3y agoI wouldn't say they had everything, but they surely had more. It's basically like in 1984. If nobody has chocolate and you have a little, you already feel richer.
- lnsru 3y agoI am king if I have original Levi’s jeans :-)
- int_19h 3y agoSoviet Union never claimed to actually be communist - it was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, after all. Communism was supposed to be that thing that'll eventually happen after you had socialism for long enough for the "new type" of people to emerge. The Soviet joke about it went, "communism is like the horizon: an imaginary line that is always the same distance away as you walk towards it".
- vorpalhex 3y agoCommunism is a process leading to a utopic state. Even Marx makes this clear in his manifesto.