• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    You’re shadowboxxing again, I never mentioned the state/government distinction.

    Completely pointless either way since the USSR was not state abolitionist.

    What structural aspects of the USSR differed from what Marx advocated for?

    Because competition isn’t what creates class disparity, the problem is the ownership and control part, which was entirely reserved for members of the party.

    Incorrect. Competition is key to accmulation and production for profit along Capitalist lines. Ownership was done via government, yes, and was participated in by the public. The Party was the group that largely ran the government, but you could join it if you wished.

    If there were elections they were a sham, basically nothing else than virtue signaling to the values the communist party supposedly had but in practice despised.

    There were elections. I would like justification for your claim that they were a sham.

    MLs flipping a coin on if they should tell someone to read Critique of the Gotha Programme or On Authority today.

    Marxists suggest reading Marx and Engels, shocker.