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.
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.