Quote Originally Posted by Eric C. View Post
Who's to determine everyone's abilities and needs?
From this question it is clear that you don't understand main idea of communism. And Soviet Union never said that it had communism, they wanted to construct it. But after fail of German Revolution it became clear that World Revolution will not become, so the idea of World Wide society without states, governments and "chosen ones" was discarded.

Decision of building new society in the single state (note: state, communism declines states) was kept. The idea was to build socialistic society that in future will spread all over the world and make coming of communism easy. Government doctrine was never called communism. Marksism, Marksism-Lenininsm, Socialism. Bad translation and black propaganda.

It the same with western models here, few amount of people know the difference between Republic and Democracy, for main part of people it is the same, and has small relation to its original meaning.