@Radical_EgoCom The contradiction is "state capitalism" is NOT production for profit for the benefit of a capitalist class, so how is it capitalism?
Later he says "Exchange is freedom of trade; it is capitalism."
Do you think this sums up Lenin's absorption of Marx's analysis of Das Kapital?
Stalin ended the NEP after denying its contradictions and the danger of the Kulaks. These problems culminated in the refusal of peasants to supply grain in 1927.
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