How come the Soviet Union lasted for most of the 20th century?

But it wasn't real communism :^)

>>2902119
It unironically wasn't. The Means of Production were in the hands of the state, not the workers themselves.

>>2902101
In the early days they achieved meteoric growth and progress in every area simply by not being as retarded as the Tsar. Post-WW2 they were able to barely drag themselves along through a combination of natural resources and foreign loans. By the 1980s they literally couldn't pay their debt or grow enough food to feed themselves.

>>2902134
So communism is a pipe dream dangled in front of poor people so some sadists can gain power and 'unexpectedly' become dictators? No shit.

>>2902101
>WW2

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The essence of communism is that all societies are moving to a classes state without conflict. This is based on the dialectics of Hegel, and makes no sense when applied to Marixism--- this is why there has never been a "true communism", there can NEVER be a "true communism".


>Hegel: individuals have spiritual conflicts. They externalize their own goodness into things outside of themselves and so become alienated. Eventually the historical dialectic of geist (cultural/historical "mind") will result in a society of rational freedom where people have no inner conflicts, and reinternalize those aspects of themselves which they had ascribed to some external force like God. I have done these things already, since I'm a pantheist.

>Marx: Hegel says dialectic leads to a mode of being without conflict? Well classes compete, do they not, all societies must then be moving to a state without class conflict. Thus a classless society without conflict is inevitable, and we can obliterate whoever and whatever we want to fulfill that inevitability.

>Hegel: wtf that's not what I meant at all.