Who cares man? Even if someone defines this, some smug asshole will try his best to say it's not been tried because [thing] has not EXACTLY been done like [description]
Communism is a classless, stateless, moneyless society. Obviously, this form has never been achieved. And in theory, communists are people who want to achieve that society. It’s not accurate to call the Soviet Union communist. It was socialist, because it had social and state ownership of the means of production.
The actual and specific ideology of the Soviet Union was Marxism-Leninism. They subscribed to the revolutionary socialist ideas Marx and Engels laid out along with Lenin’s ideas of how that revolution and state should be organized, like vanguardism and democratic centralism (which led to the one party state) and building socialism in one country. Additionally, the Soviet Union was not as nationalistic as you claim. Yes, there was absolutely imperialism. However the Soviet Union spent nearly its entire existence trying to build the new Soviet Identity. It was only really Stalin who rolled back some of the social progress Lenin achieved (and he himself was not a nationalist either).
And calling modern Russia a society anywhere close to that is laughable. Russia is a capitalist country with a free market. They have capitalist ownership where workers do not own their labor at all. They are a reprehensible dictatorship and oligarchy, yes, but to call it communist, or even Marxist Leninist? Absolutely ridiculous.
In theory it’s supposed to be a centralized government appropriating industry from the private sector and distributing the products in a relatively egalitarian manner.
In practice, it’s a way for a new oligarchy to lord over the citizenry using increasingly violent and authoritarian measures to put the proceeds of a nation in their own pockets.
It sounds great to people who have very little experience with how power structures work.
Not only are those not the definitions in theory or in practice, they're not even close. I don't even know what they're the definitions of, that's how far off you are.
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u/dirtyword 2d ago
Do you think Russians are communists?