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[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because there was a state, there remained a class system, and money was still in use. The three main things communism aims to do: stateless, classless, moneyless. The USSR was a socialist state, with an aim toward communism, which are the tenets of Marxism-Leninism (my emphasis), a form of socialism. Communism is a different form of socialism.

Lenin himself made this distinction.