Goods are produced to fulfill human needs via the help of central planning as opposed to commodity production where the “invisible hand of the market” dictates what to produce
Goods get distributed to fulfill needs rather than “rationed” through universal commodities like money
Private ownership gets abolished which gets rid of the parasitic class that extracts value out of land/labor
A system where the entire mode of production changes, and the present state of things gets abolished aka communism/communist mode of production though most of these core points that I outlined (it’s not everything) can also apply to anarchism.
It’s easy to write these ideas off as “having provably failed” given the history, but failures at building communism have nothing to do with these economic aspects or “human nature” or whatever, but rather political and material situations. USSR didn’t achieve communism because of majority of its population being peasants as opposed to urban proletariat, and you can’t really fulfill the needs of people if you haven’t developed the productive forces to produce said needs, and if you stay on capitalism long enough, you’ll start getting opportunists who want personal power and wealth.
Other post-Stalin regimes that called themselves communist (such as Vietnam, Cuba) only did so to gain protection from the Capitalist west given their ex-colony status, so they adopted Marxist-Leninist aesthetics to gain the protection of USSR - materially, they weren’t communist at all though given their repression of the workers and independent labor unions, mode of production remaining capitalist and class divisions still going strong.
A system where:
Goods are produced to fulfill human needs via the help of central planning as opposed to commodity production where the “invisible hand of the market” dictates what to produce
Goods get distributed to fulfill needs rather than “rationed” through universal commodities like money
Private ownership gets abolished which gets rid of the parasitic class that extracts value out of land/labor
A system where the entire mode of production changes, and the present state of things gets abolished aka communism/communist mode of production though most of these core points that I outlined (it’s not everything) can also apply to anarchism.
It’s easy to write these ideas off as “having provably failed” given the history, but failures at building communism have nothing to do with these economic aspects or “human nature” or whatever, but rather political and material situations. USSR didn’t achieve communism because of majority of its population being peasants as opposed to urban proletariat, and you can’t really fulfill the needs of people if you haven’t developed the productive forces to produce said needs, and if you stay on capitalism long enough, you’ll start getting opportunists who want personal power and wealth.
Other post-Stalin regimes that called themselves communist (such as Vietnam, Cuba) only did so to gain protection from the Capitalist west given their ex-colony status, so they adopted Marxist-Leninist aesthetics to gain the protection of USSR - materially, they weren’t communist at all though given their repression of the workers and independent labor unions, mode of production remaining capitalist and class divisions still going strong.