John Wilson WSWS@Radical_EgoCom If the working class takes power, how is it supposed to implement the "capitalist stage" of development? This is the contradiction Trotsky was pointing out.
Socialist TASKS begin but full socialist construction depends on a high productivity of labor. The solution to this was the world socialist revolution.
The whole of Lenin's statement points to the tensions and contradictions facing the first workers' state.
It is essential reading.
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