Why did the USSR fail to achieve socialism?

Why did the USSR fail to achieve socialism?

Stalin didnt read marx and lenin continued to implement policies that set the USSR on a course toward state capitalism.

It wasnt. If you have money its not socialism/low-tier-communism. .t Marx.

it is a mystery

It was socialist but there was a capitalist/nationalist coup.

Failed international revolution.

This, tbh. If the revolution in Germany had succeeded they'd have been much better off. As it was, the USSR was in an unwinnable situation.

USSR was socialist. It failed because of mutually assured destruction.

Don't use such gay phrases next time, but to the point: the Bolsheviks got stuck in Russia, which at the moment was, delicately speaking, underdeveloped, as about 3/4 of population was involved in agriculture. There was simply no way to nuke the valorized economy.

it wasn't run by the working class

It achieved a flavor of socialism methinks.
I suppose the USSR could have gone many other ways if it didn't have to balance the well being of its members with competing with the capitalist economy and military.
It's like trying to out-market a slave plantation with regular workers while promising your workers better than the slaves.
Or trying to "democratize" the industries by forming co-ops, while they are still subject to the market and to the capitalists erasing you whenever it gets convenient/competitive in any way other than token controllable oposition.

I think the lesson to extract from the USSR is that capitalists would rather blast half the earth into a smoking radioactive crater than, say , let their subjects in to the benefits of other ways to organize.

Material conditions.

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Marx doesnt thinks that

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In a world where Autism Level is distributed on a bell curve, all societies need a ruling class. Soviet Union is no different.

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I guess your own place on that meme curve isn't too impressive.

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josef stalin

Well they had a lack of industry and were semi-feudalistic, they also had really bad infrastructure. It was also doomed after stalin came to power. Also socialism can just be achieved if the dictatorship of the proletariat has global dominance.

Isolation and Brest-Livotsk.

Truly a mystery for the ages.

They were socialistS, in the sense they were people striving for socialism.
But as long as a state exists and socialism isn't an international phenomenon that has completely obliterated capitalism, then we are still for all intents and purposes in a capitalist world.

Stalin a shit.
No international revolution.
Unindustrialised economy that was majority peasants who felt no connection to the worker/capitalist dynamic.
Poorly implemented collectivisation that killed any desire within the party to move toward a more planned economy.
The party became too insulated from workers and consisted mostly of careerist politicians than anybody with a real desire to further any revolutionary/marxist ideology.
But mostly Stalin a shit