• Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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    25 days ago

    I disagree with many points of Bolshevik and particularly USSR communism.

    That said, it was ruled by the Communist Party. So it’s a fine example - and claims that even the flawed state socialist system of the USSR wasn’t more beneficial to the average person is ignoring exactly the natural experiment that Russia was.

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      25 days ago

      When did workers control the means of production in the USSR? When was the state abolished? When was money abolished? When was class abolished?

      Communism never existed in the USSR it was run under state capitalism and the dictatorship of the proletariat never ended.

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        25 days ago

        That’s nice.

        Except the post is about the communist party, not communism - and which did run the USSR.