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cameraandsickle@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago"Get down to business, all of you! You will have capitalists beside you, including foreign capitalists, concessionaires and leaseholders. They will squeeze profits out of you amounting to hundreds per cent; they will enrich themselves, operating alongside of you. Let them. Meanwhile you will learn from them the business of running the economy, and only when you do that will you be able to build up a communist republic. Since we must necessarily learn quickly, any slackness in this respect is a serious crime. And we must undergo this training, this severe, stern and sometimes even cruel training, because we have no other way out."
Shit I guess Lenin was a socdem for thinking the state can control and punish their domestic capitalists.
plu@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
That's the pre-revolution strategy...
cameraandsickle@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
NEP was pre-revolution?
plu@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
No, but the NEP was the reactionary reintroduction of capitalist production to the Soviet Union, directly leading to the bureaucratic takeover of the state by the interests of that new industrial elite with the face of Stalin. As always, superstructure determined by the foundation.
Can't really blame Lenin though, as the USSR's productive forces clearly were not advanced enough to build socialism at the time. Anyone would have done the same optimistically.
cameraandsickle@lemmygrad.ml 2 years ago
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