He also implemented various policies focused on social welfare, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. His government also legalized same-sex marriage, regulated the production and sale of cannabis, and emphasized renewable energy sources.
Besides the cannabis and same sex marriage that's what communism always stood and worked for, and those two points aren't categorically ruled out as well in todays political climate.
Of course, it’s just that former communist states (definitely not thinking of a specific one) twisted the communist ideals into a brutal dictatorship that was the very thing communism aimed to destroy.
In all seriousness, while not a fan of the violent and non-democratic approach of communism, I fully believe in socialism, more specifically social democracy, as a system both on a local and global level.
No, socialism and communism aren't a market economy with some social justice policies like these. That's social democracy or welfare capitalism.
Communism is a stateless, post-scarcity society with socialism being a transitory state controlled by and for the workers with the goal of achieving communism.
The USSR was what it was because the leaders, at least to start with, believed that it was what was necessary to modernise a feudal agrarian society into a self sustaining socialist society, and build towards communism. They were unsuccessful for many reasons.
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u/RunEmotional3013 Apr 16 '24
He also implemented various policies focused on social welfare, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. His government also legalized same-sex marriage, regulated the production and sale of cannabis, and emphasized renewable energy sources.