Re the politics question, I’m not a communist but I don’t think any sane modern communists would use the soviet union as an example of communist government. They officially claimed the government was a transitional stage towards self governing collective utopia.
In Soviet parlance, the Soviet Union was a socialist society but could be fairly described as having a communist government. Of course if you’re an anti-revisionist or Trotskyist or Judean Popular Front or the like things get more complicated, but my guess is that anybody who self-describes as “communist” will have picked that option regardless of the description, which is, to be sure, weird on a couple of levels. Like most fringe-but-widely-known groups they’re used to being described in ways that are slightly off.
Re the politics question, I’m not a communist but I don’t think any sane modern communists would use the soviet union as an example of communist government. They officially claimed the government was a transitional stage towards self governing collective utopia.
In Soviet parlance, the Soviet Union was a socialist society but could be fairly described as having a communist government. Of course if you’re an anti-revisionist or Trotskyist or Judean Popular Front or the like things get more complicated, but my guess is that anybody who self-describes as “communist” will have picked that option regardless of the description, which is, to be sure, weird on a couple of levels. Like most fringe-but-widely-known groups they’re used to being described in ways that are slightly off.