In the first half of the 20th century, the Soviet Union and the communist parties of the Third International around the world mainly came to represent socialism in terms of the Soviet model of economic development and the creation of centrally planned economies directed by a state that owns all the means of production, although other trends condemned what they saw as the lack of democracy.
在20世纪上半叶，苏联和第三国际中世界各地的共产党派主要将社会主义体现于苏联经济发展模式和国家拥有所有生产方式的计划经济，尽管其他方面谴责他们缺少民主。