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[-] aport@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago

Rapid industrialization at the cost of millions of lives was only a necessity because Stalin insisted on Socialism in One Country.

Had proletariat revolutions not failed elsewhere, especially Western Europe, there would be no need for such a haphazard and reckless transition.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Okay but how was the soviet union to create a global proletarian revolution? They had to work with what they had.

[-] aport@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

You could ask Trotsky but Stalin had him murdered 🤷

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I've read Trot stuff and found their arguments unconvincing in this context. Global proletarian revolution is something we all have to exercise agency over, if youre in the soviet union you can't just rely on everyone else spontaneously uprising, you have to plan for that not happening. And it didn't happen, so...

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