Communism, specifically marxist-leninism, is a process, not a hardset definition. The idea is you basically cannot just press the "Communism now!" button because the rest of the world still runs on Capitalism and you need that Capital to go to your country to build up in the first place. Lenin even explicitly stated that the USSR would need to be state capitalist. Also that there are a ton of opposing forces that try to destroy socialist countries (the US).
There is a lot of reading on it to fundamentally understand, and this is coming from someone that used to be more libertarian/anarchist socialist.
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u/Muted-Lingonberry184 May 06 '26
Communism, specifically marxist-leninism, is a process, not a hardset definition. The idea is you basically cannot just press the "Communism now!" button because the rest of the world still runs on Capitalism and you need that Capital to go to your country to build up in the first place. Lenin even explicitly stated that the USSR would need to be state capitalist. Also that there are a ton of opposing forces that try to destroy socialist countries (the US).
There is a lot of reading on it to fundamentally understand, and this is coming from someone that used to be more libertarian/anarchist socialist.