The silent revolution or should I say evolution?

[I'm Watermark]

Its was SOCIALIST.....thats still a fucked up system that failed.

The state ideology of the Soviet Union embodied a number of different theoretical streams, originating primarily from within the Marxist ideology of socialism, but with some minor threads emerging from within the Russian revolutionary movement such as the ideology of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries or from within anarcho-communism

They certainly considered themselves 'COMMUNIST' whether you agree with it or not, comrade.

... That was almost frightening to read. How can a person understand so little about the Union, or left radicalism.

I don't want to actually write you a comprehensive response - your post doesn't warrant that much attention - so I'll give you some salient points.

1. Socialism isn't a Marxist ideology. The other way around.
2. Lenin and Trotsky, after overthrowing tsarism, discovered that the economic conditions presented by Russia were unable to lead to socialism directly - contrary to their previous belief. Thus, Lenin began his defense rule by the Bolshevik party, which led into Stalinism after his death.
3. By the Union's fall, it was a combination of state capitalism and bureaucratic collectivism.
4. State socialism must be heavily democratic for that term to be accurately used. The Soviet Union, well, wasn
5. Most anarchists in Russia were marginalized.

 

[NOVA]

... That was almost frightening to read. How can a person understand so little about the Union, or left radicalism.

I don't want to actually write you a comprehensive response - your post doesn't warrant that much attention - so I'll give you some salient points.

1. Socialism isn't a Marxist ideology. The other way around.
2. Lenin and Trotsky, after overthrowing tsarism, discovered that the economic conditions presented by Russia were unable to lead to socialism directly - contrary to their previous belief. Thus, Lenin began his defense rule by the Bolshevik party, which led into Stalinism after his death.
3. By the Union's fall, it was a combination of state capitalism and bureaucratic collectivism.
4. State socialism must be heavily democratic for that term to be accurately used. The Soviet Union, well, wasn
5. Most anarchists in Russia were marginalized.

A post you don't understand can be frightening...sorry about that....

This isn't a history lesson on the USSR.....but to claim Russia or the USSR as its was commonly called was not considered communist is just plain insane....
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза, Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS) was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union emerged from the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, under the leadership of Lenin.