>>2780149>Since when funds are surplus?Because if you're going to have anything leftover after workers have accepted their compensation, there must necessarily be a surplus. This is exactly why Marx criticizes the notion of workers receiving "the undiminished proceeds of labour," since if every worker received their full output as compensation there would be nothing left for the purposes I mentioned.
>Workers state should focus on developing both their internal state and external revolutionary movements without unnecessary separation between themThe Soviets did exactly this though. Even when they were practicing "socialism in one country" they were still supporting communists abroad and of course set up communist governments in Eastern Europe after the war. You're taking the "one country" part too literally, it effectively just meant that the USSR would see to its own development and security first before turning its attention outward.
>>2780281>The problem with the USSR is that workers had no right of disposal to their product, and were thus still alienated from their labor and society.What would such a right look like in practice though? If production is subordinated to a central plan, then individual firms and their workers can't be deciding on their own how much to produce, according to what standards, where to distribute their products, etc.
>Likewise the wage relation, commodity production, etc. still existedThe existence of wages is debatable since I would argue that the Soviet system conformed to the criteria for renumeration laid out by Marx in Critique of the Gotha program, though of course they probably could have done more to replace money with something like labour vouchers. I would argue emphatically that commodity production was not generalized however, since goods were produced and distributed according to a common plan for use, not as articles of private exchange for profit seeking purposes.
>You can't advance to communism from hereI don't see why not. Why would a second revolution be necessary to replace Soviet money with labour time calculation?