[Fasces]

Why? It was class collaborationist, nationalist, corporatist/state capitalist and authoritarian.

In practice, in the early days, at any rate.

I also like China.

[Preston Cole]

class collaborationist

Repressions against the peasantry in Romania say otherwise. Maybe in the time of the NEP in Russia, or in the later years of the Union.

[Fasces]

Was Romania part of the Soviet Union?

In any case, the USSR doesn't interest me, and I have only a shallow knowledge of its history or politics. This is simply my perception on the basis of that shallow knowledge, and I welcome anyone to correct me.

[Potemkin]

It was class collaborationist

The Soviet Union was only class collaborationist with those classes it permitted to survive.

[Fasces]

Why should we strive to include parasites in the glorious future anyway? I would gladly destroy the international financier class first, and collaborate with the remnants later.

[Potemkin]

Spoken like a true Bolshevik!

[Francis Drakeleigh]

I don't think Plato had in mind quite so much an authoritarian bully as a philosopher king. After all Pinochet fitted the first description.

[starman2003]

I feel pretty sure that Plato would have approved of the Soviet Union

Its educational system and fair degree of meritocracy; atheism is another matter.

Kind of surprising that the fascists here approve of the USSR

Just certain aspects of the communist system in practice, like free education through university level.