Socialism has always been the ideology of unbridled egoism, in the best cases, self-esteem; the USSR launching Sputnik, and Gagarin, were great triumphs of the spirit (in my private value system)
it has always used the proclamation of emancipatory ideals to mask, or simply to decently dress, the basic selfish impulse that was behind it.
Having grown up amidst Communists who fought in WWII and became allied with Moscow on high levels as well as amidst basically only communists and socialists, Amsterdam in the 80s was at least 80 percent red in general, I know Communists, specially the hardliners, as totems of righteous self-esteem. They take what they want and find reasons to justify it. Pure materialism in that sense, there is no ideal besides acquisition. There is no notion of production, there is only acquisition and securing. Production is taken for granted - which is why the ideology rises during the rise of the machines. The more work is done by machines, the more credit people demand for it - they have ever more time to think about their needs.
Now, almost all the work is being done by machines, and the people are demanding more respect, reverence, adulation and obedience than any god has ever demanded of a people.
In the analysis;
What is lacking is actual self-valuing logic; what is lacking is the Other; the actual person you’re supposedly representing but from whom you’re actually stealing. Communists are essentially a clan whose intended takeover of the world-resources is formulated so as to produce a physiological ecstatic anxiety of sorts, a feeling of radical entitlement and togetherness in this entitlement; a feeling which excludes anyone who might have something you want.
It ultimately to funnel wealth upward and create a radical selfish populace. Not surprising from a philosophy which primary tenet is literally mass-entitlement and the proposed means is basically ‘anything goes’.