Communism hasn’t been tried b/c it can’t work in the real world. The Soviet Union was actually more socialist. It was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. I agree that capitalism is the best system.
Nope sorry, again just as in Germany, the tag "SOCIALIST" was used because socialism was well known and fairly popular in 1917, plus while there may have originally been plans by folks like Trotsky to take the USSR socialist, the Communists won, and Leon Trotsky wisely JOINED the Bolsheviks just prior to the 1917 revolution.
Still, when Stalin began to campaign, Trotsky opposed him and was rewarded by being stripped of all politburo posts and eventual exile from the USSR, getting an assassin's bullet in Mexico City as a final kiss-off from Uncle Joe.
The USSR was "socialist" in name only, just as the National Socialist Worker's Party was, also in name only, just as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is "democratic" in name only, just as Vladimir Zhironovsky's
"Liberal Democratic Party of Russia" is not even remotely liberal or democratic, except in name only.
In fact, the LPDR is described as a socially conservative, nationalist, economically interventionist political party in Russia led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky since its founding in 1989.
The USSR was Communist. It was Communist because all of its leaders since 1917 were Communist. The top elites were all Communist Party members.
The banner you see in this Moscow picture taken in 1917 does not say "SOCIALISM", it says "COMMUNISM".
It is not uncommon, never has been.
Why isn't the Republican Party labeled the "Conservative Party"?
Labeling and marketing are extremely important in politics the world over.
They're important because people are conditioned to respond to labels.
One of the reasons Bernie Sanders can't seem to win primaries is because he refuses to accept the fact that Americans have been conditioned for seventy plus years to recoil against the word "socialism".
They've been taught to be scared of the word.
Bernie's been a New Deal liberal Democrat in the mold of FDR ever since he first set foot on Capitol Hill but HE seems to think the term "socialism" conjures up some romantic notion of friendly hardworking hippie entrepreneurs like Ben & Jerry of Vermont ice cream fame.
Bernie does not understand labels and marketing either, at least not here in the US of A.
He could run in Europe and they would probably call him a centrist.
That's because over there, Euros hear the word and nod and say,
"Yeah we're okay with a little bit of socialism...A LITTLE BIT."
Last but not least, the economy of the Imperial Russian Empire bordered on near collapse in 1916.
Marke's suggestion that the Bolsheviks took a healthy national economy and transformed it into "widespread starvation and death" is utter nonsense.
Widespread starvation and death is precisely what spurred the October Revolution of 1917.
The only people eating regularly were the ones Czar Nicholas thought worthy of favor.
Peasants were starving and dying by the millions.