Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism?
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 3 hours agoThe USSR was not communist. They had a communist ideology, sure, but the definition essentially comes down to a communist society being stateless while also being a dictatorship of the proletariat (that is, ALL the workers are essentially the leader at the same time and they make decisions collectively through direct democracy). And the USSR could only barely fit that definition for about one or two years before Lenin essentially steered it into a regular autocratic dictatorship with communist aesthetics.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
So essentially, communism is defined as something that cannot exist in reality.
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Human society was communist for over a hundred thousand years before the idea of empires and cities came along. Indigenous communities lived under what we would call communism in the modern day until feudalism.