The Soviet Union was not communism. Communism isn’t a system, it’s a goal. It has no State, government, economy per se, commoditised money, private property, etc Look up Mussolini, he invented the system Putin and Trump want to impose on the world again. Not communism, FASCISM.
Stalinism the leading vanguard party of communist revolution at the time. Stalin 1878 - 1953 (You’re right - pre Soviet Union. Let me compare trump to Stalin instead.) There are root ideas of communism dating back to Ancient Greece.
Of course, Plato had a lot of ideas about the “natural way of organisation”, and expressed notions of what we might today call communist theory in ‘Republic’ and elsewhere. I think Mussolini is more apt a comparator than Stalin, in intent, personal hubris/dictatorial demeanour and incompetence.
It’s a shame our dictator doesn’t know how Mussolini’s time in government ended.
We live in hope that FAFO applies to the historically illiterate :)
Economist here and communism is definitely a system of allocating resources