What does it mean for workers to collectively own means of production? Am I supposed to own only the laboratory I work at or everything everywhere? What if I decide to change a place of employment? Why doesn't owning it though the intermediary of the state and your representative in the communist party qualify?
this anti-USSR shit is such fucking gymnastic pedantic argument. if a state cannot be an organisation to enforce people's ownership, what can? a soviet that controls each individual factory? a soviet bigger than that doing logistics and civics is clearly too state-like right? how about every individual worker just owns a fucking share of their worksplace then? lil financialised market socialism to satisfy the radlibs
if workers use industry for social good it must be in a coordinated planned economy. call it whatever you fucking want a 'state' a 'council' a 'syndicate' but you're going to end up with degrees of separation between decision making and work, and pretending these degrees of separation invalidate "worker ownership" the entire project is DOA.
and beyond this the USSR actually had more mechanisms of worker control than a simple DoP, but the people who say shit like this don't actually know how the soviet economy or political system worked