funny how one autocratic regime pretending to be communistic/socialistic made masses believe that communism and socialism will be the same as ussr. there never was any true socialism or communism
What counts as "True Socialism?" What metric would AES states have to pass to be considered a genuine and authentic movement that isn't completely arbitrary and vibes-based?
Does a drastic improvement in life expectancy, literacy rates, housing rates, educational access, healthcare access, diminishing wealth disparity, and decreasing hours worked not count as "true and authentic?"
"But these defects are inevitable in the first phase of communist society as it is when it has just emerged after prolonged birth pangs from capitalist society. Right can never be higher than the economic structure of society and its cultural development conditioned thereby.
In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly – only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!"
- Critique of the Gotha Programme, Karl Marx
It is anti-Marxist to disparage Socialist movements for not being an immediate Communist utopia without recognizing the context and Material Conditions said Socialist Movements took place in.
