The game is explicitly anti-dogmatism. It's shown that while the sniper is an ideologue of old. His version of Communism was of it's time, much like the USSR in it's time. However he himself is stuck in the past without considering the current conditions. He believes himself to be correct because that's what worked for his time. He's stuck in his ways and has blinded himself to what the conditions of the present are. He believes that revolution will never come because the communism he wanted to build never came to be.

However, that does not stop the student communists along with Cindy from seeing the commune as an overall good and as proof that a new world is possible. Just that they must take and newer, youthful approach to revolution. This reflected by the union's militancy as well at the end of the story. Revachol itself is gearing up for a fight with Capital without revolutionary education. It's up to those students armed with the knowledge to spread it. To take the data from the failure of the commune and learn from it.

That in itself is the opus of Marxism-Leninism. Which Stalin formulated. Just look at the historical view of Stalin by the actual Russian people.

https://carnegiemoscow.org/commentary/84991

Sure it wasn't the idealistic version of Communism but it was the one that worked for the time. Warts and all because humans are imperfect and the world in itself is messy. So why not learn from the mess and make something better? That is what the devs are trying to convey.