Reality tells us that state capitalism would be a step forward. If in a small space of time we could achieve state capitalism in Russia, that would be a victory.
Lenin, Minutes of the Sessions of the All-Russia C.E.C., 4th Convocation. Verbatim Report
You completely ignored that. Why?
They controlled the entire economy, you’ve said yourself it was under central control, so they achieved state capitalism, exactly the thing that Lenin championed. Was he wrong about that?
And why does wealth need to be intergenerational for it to create a bourgeois class? Oh, I know why, because otherwise you’d have to accept that your hero Lenin was bourgeois, and you can’t do that. You named yourself after him, you’re way too personally invested to see this issue clearly.
Bourgeoisie aren’t some genetically distinct group. The party supplanted the bourgeoisie and became them.
I will never understand how tankies can see a small group gain control of the means of production and understand it as anything but a new bourgeoisie.
The party didn’t have nearly enough wealth, especially not intergenerational, they were as much public workers as doctors and teachers.
Again proving you don’t know shit about soviet historiography and democratic mechanisms
I know Lenin said this:
You completely ignored that. Why?
They controlled the entire economy, you’ve said yourself it was under central control, so they achieved state capitalism, exactly the thing that Lenin championed. Was he wrong about that?
And why does wealth need to be intergenerational for it to create a bourgeois class? Oh, I know why, because otherwise you’d have to accept that your hero Lenin was bourgeois, and you can’t do that. You named yourself after him, you’re way too personally invested to see this issue clearly.