Agreed, although for a receptive audience it's a good way of highlighting (1) how socialism develops differently under different material conditions and (2) how dire the material conditions were in the early USSR.
The goal is "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need," where everyone has (at minimum) basic human needs provided, period. But when you're a late-feudal/pre-industrial society that just went through the most destructive war in history (so far!) and are being invaded by eight capitalist powers, by necessity you need a war economy that will ask much more of its workers.
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Agreed, although for a receptive audience it's a good way of highlighting (1) how socialism develops differently under different material conditions and (2) how dire the material conditions were in the early USSR.
The goal is "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need," where everyone has (at minimum) basic human needs provided, period. But when you're a late-feudal/pre-industrial society that just went through the most destructive war in history (so far!) and are being invaded by eight capitalist powers, by necessity you need a war economy that will ask much more of its workers.