Early 30 here. Mobile phones only started being accessible when I was like in 5th year of school, smartphones, like proper ones, android/ios - that was closer to my university days. Before that we had different phones with good displays but controlled by buttons, you could play games on those too, but lot simpler ones.
What I'm trying to say, your gen is about the first one to experience "smartphone was here always" vibe.
It devolved into it in the first years of tries and failures, which was under Lenin's rule.
Yes, but how they compare to the rest of the market competitively?
It devolved into autherianism as soon as bolsheviks took over, and that was right at the beginning. Stalin was a catastrophe because he was more wicked than the rest of them, but it doesn't mean that whatever Lenin was doing wasn't authoritarian project.
It devolved because people take democracy for granted. And unlike USSR, it can heal without falling apart if people start acting like citizen (I don't have high hopes btw).
Oh but they did try. You just prefer to ignore it, but soviet union did attempt different tricks from the communist rulebook - moneyless society was tried and failed, so they had to fall back to working practices from capitalist rulebook and promise the people "communism in the brighter future".
Same way communism was tried in Makhnovschina, Gulyay Pole (south-eastern Ukraine). Stateless, anarchy driven flavour of such. USSR killed all of them and then killed everyone who visited the funeral, btw, so they were afraid of them A LOT. What can we learn from anarchy? That Ukrainian farmers who were not forced into communist state preferred to have monetary relationships :-)
If left alone, it would do the "world revolution" aka military expansion. And that is exactly what it did all the way up to ww2, including the start of ww2 - occupation of Poland together with nazies.
Still multitudes better than soviet union at any time and period.
It's easy to get good results with capital from capitalist system and throw it into welfare. But you are taking about communism as a core system.
We don't see good examples of it because it fails incredibly fast, and then leaders who tried to build communism understand it, but aren't willing to acknowledge mistake because they will lose power. Thus, they continue to build autocracy.
If communism as economic system works, we first need to prove it as successful PLC of a smaller scale, such as a company that produces something being fully community led from the inside using communist principles, and for such company to be able to compete on the market.
I think if you send like a dollar to everyone on your playlist, it would end up being like 100 times more than they get from the system.
Definitely the case, because I was reading some independent ukrainian analysis on early deepstrikes vs refineries, some key components were targeted that are irreplaceable. All those deepstrikes are a long chain of spying, analysis, desicions, logistics, execution - with many people and time involved into each case. And ofc we see only successful ones. Huge amount of work been done there.
So you want to change the name of ideology, that postulates free market relations as important part of human freedoms? Fine, it can be Classic Liberalism if you want.