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Why China is not a capitalist country - China's theory is in line with Marx (but not Stalin) (www.socialistaction.net)

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[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always assumed the serial crises and upheaval of WW2 and the Cold War put experimental policies like that on the back burner and they just never got picked back up.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's been my understanding as well, the NEP was abandoned because there was a realization that the USSR would not be able to withstand a war with Germany without rapid mass industrialization.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And the state of emergency was very hard to lift after given that the US got all the Nazis to work on sabotage against the Eastern bloc, not to mention had developed a nuclear weapon and refused to rule out a first strike against the USSR.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Exactly, USSR was under siege from western capitalist powers throughout its whole existence.