Can anyone tell me what the hell SV means ? <| sep |> I think it isn ' t real communism for the simple reason that it definitionally doesn ' t describe communism and was obviously never even claimed to be communism by any those powers . The heads of the USSR claimed to be building communism , where , by some unspecified miracle , the state , in insert years , would just fall away along with all the cash registers , giving way to a classless , moneyless , stateless society . More sincerely , the early Bolsheviks like Lenin pretty much thought of Russia as a peasant backwater that needed to be driven to industrialization before any kind of socialist revolution could take place . Interestingly , Marx didn ' t share this view . As for stateless , classless , moneyless societies well , that ' s actually most human societies to date . The question is how would a revolutionary Spain , for example , keep the fascists , liberals and communists from stomping them to pieces .