Human Resources: Social Engineering in the 20th Century (2010)

Noam Chomsky : The world's two major propaganda systems, of the West and the Sovjet Union, they both decided to use the word 'socialism' to refer to the totalitarian system of the Sovjet Union. The West did it to discredit socialism, the Bolsheviks did it to try to gain some of the credit associated with genuine socialism. And when the world's two propaganda systems agree, it's going to be very hard for people to extricate themselves from it. So now the term 'socialism' has been degraded to mean the form of totalitarianism instituted by Lenin and carried through by Stalin.
Noam Chomsky : The Leninist system was one of the greatest blows that socialism suffered in the 20th century, maybe second only to fascism. As Lenin took power, one of his first acts was to destroy the socialist institutions that had arisen in the pre-Bolshevik period: Soviets, factory councils, constituent assembly, which was dominated by left-social revolutionaries and largely peasant-based, and of course he went to war against the Anarchists, a major war, he tried to wipe them out.

Noam Chomsky: Self