Comment by defrost
2 years ago
Wasn't the USSR quite open about not being communist and at best working towards "socialism" as a pathway towards communism?
Surely the USSR is an example of the pigs pulling a bait and switch rather than communism.
The failure of the USSR to achieve communism is a side show to all the variations on worker | producer collectives that didn't fall to Stalinism.
Totally. The USSR had no worker-owned companies. They all belonged to the state. There was no economy which is based on cooperatives in a free market, yet.
I think we can also say that the former USSR has also failed to achieve capitalism despite having 30 years to do it. So maybe there's some other factors at play.