Very true of the criticisms of the USSR, to be sure. What you have to remember is that the USSR had a Marxist-Leninist vanguard party system implementing the so-called "dictatorship of the proletariat" in order to, at some point in the future, achieve "true" communism. The USSR was intended more as a transition phase than a permanent form of government & economy. For many reasons, it did not work out.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

For many reasons, it did not work out.

For many reasons that anarchists had perfectly predicted long before the Russian revolution, of course.