“The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on.” - William Z. Foster, National Chairman of the Communist Party, restating point one of the Communist Manifesto in 1932, “The abolition of private property.”
Here’s the Encyclopedia Britannica on soviets:
“Soviet: Council that was the primary unit of government in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and that officially performed both legislative and executive functions at the all-union, republic, province, city, district, and village levels.”
In these soviets, unelected and unaccountable commissars and their useful idiots, without help from citizens or the messy give and take of democratic meetings or popular voting, developed utopian plans for the peasants. With the master blueprint in hand, the commissars clanged the meeting bell for all peasants to gather to form a “consensus.” (The word “consensus” is a word heard again and again in “smart growth.”) Those who agreed with the plan would be in the “consensus.” Those who disagreed were ignored. This is how a soviet operates.
The Russian people had a name for this kind of people control. They called it soviet socialism.
Do you have the Commie Party platform from that era? If so, post it. About 95% of it has been enacted by Dems and Republicans. Sad.