Socialism in the soviet union

In what way was the socialism in the soviet union different than in say a co-op? Workers in a co-op don't directly sell their labor power to a capitalist yet they are still paid the value of their labor power and still produce surplus value, just like in the soviet union. Workers in a co-op because they exist in a capitalistic world have to compete with capitalism by exploiting themselves in order to buy labor saving equipment and even firing themselves and lowering wages to save money, just like in the soviet union. It seems like because of the lack of world revolution the soviet union was pulled into the capitalist world until it basically became a huge co-op of workings being forced by the market to exploit themselves.

nice meme

The Soviet Union and all M-L countries were just like a corporation that achieved the ultimate monopoly.

Except they were democratic like a co-op and sometimes "broke" the law of value.

Keep telling yourself that.

And like all co-ops, that in turn broke them. You can stop an exchange-based economy from being capitalist about as well as you can stop water from dissociating into its component parts under an electric current.

That doesn't mean they weren't capitalist just because they were democratic and sometimes acted against the law of value.

Corporations produce for profit, not for use. Lay down the memes and read a book.

You mean during their entire industrialization and industrial development.

They were doing that to compete with capitalist nations and in order to do that they had to exploit themselves.