The USSR was ran by the Bulshevik party which was run under the ideals of Vladamir Lenin. Marxism splintered into multiple ideas and Lenin formed "Scientific Socialism" which today is referred to as Marxist Leninism. Lenin came to the conclusion that a strong Vanguard party is need to educate and protect the people from "Counter Revolutionaries" that where the tyranicle part comes from since the government is hyper focused on removing opposition to the party.
This is where the colloquial and Ecconomic definitions of private property get confused. Private property refers to means of production such as land, resources,Factories. Etc. In short capital. In general Socialism distinguishes private and personal property. You can't own commercial land, but you own your house. You can't individually own a corporation but you can own a tool directly used in that corporation. Basicly you can't just own stock, real-estate, and concepts, you own the results of your labor.
No socialism is the people owning the means of production. Any system will have collective and individual policy. Even capitalist writers recognize the need for some form general welfare.
Yeah that's social Democracy. When the 20th century came there was a split in Marxist thought where you had the Lenin model and then a man named Eduard Bernstein who disagreed with Marx and Lenin on the need for a worker based dictatorship and instead puts more power into unions instead of a central economy.
It's similar to how Adam Smith is the father of Capitalism but we see splits with Milton, Rand, Locke. Etc.
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I see that since The Bible takes place in a Fudelustic time period, it's more closely related to rejecting worldly wealth in place for a collective purpose under God. So it's a rejection the then current system. So it has simolarites to what would become basic socialist thought.