>>510460613Yes it was “authoritarian, centrally-planned one-party states, often referred to by critics as “Soviet-style socialism” or more provocatively, as a form of red fascism, due to:
• State control of nearly all aspects of life
• Suppression of political pluralism
• Nationalist rhetoric cloaked in socialist language
The ideology behind this system was Marxism-Leninism; a fusion of Karl Marx’s class-based socialism with Lenin’s theories of revolutionary vanguardism and state control.
Many critics argue:
• It claimed to be universalist and liberatory, but was implemented through state violence and repression.
• It was heavily centralized, bureaucratic, and dogmatic leading to inefficiency, corruption, and stagnation.
• In practice, it often served as a vehicle for imperial control, not genuine worker empowerment.
Whether it was “impossible to implement properly” is debatable, but the historical record suggests that every attempt to do so at scale involved coercion and mass surveillance.