What if you cite him on the fact that the so-called Holodomor was not a genocide against Ukrainians?
Try and justify post-NEP USSR
David Nelson
Elijah Barnes
The USSR was socialist until the death of Lenin. Stalin turned it into a reactionary bureaucratic collectivism.
Bureaucracy is a crime against the proletariat.
John Williams
It's almost like he's writing from experience.
Aaron Wright
But Trotsky, while he still had influence within the government, was largely supportive of the bureaucracy.
Luke Young
This is the dumbest possible take. Lenin himself did not claim that the USSR, during his lifetime, was socialist. If the USSR was ever socialist it was after Lenin and after the NEP, with the introduction of the five year plans.
Also, do you seriously believe bureaucracy somehow didn't exist in the USSR until Lenin died and Stalin got in there and said "hey let's get some fucking bureaucracy up in this place!"?
Robert Murphy
The closest the workers ever came to owning the means of production, was during the NEP, daily reminder that if Bukharin had taken control, the Soviet Union would of been a workers paradise and still exist today
Kevin Morgan
How do you organize society without bureaucracy?
Dylan Diaz
What? This guy was a reactionary who hated leftism altogether. He should've been shot for treason.
Grayson Robinson
This meme needs to fucking die. Bureaucracy isn't some inherently terrible or inefficient thing, it's quite useful when it's not created by dumbasses.
Nicholas Barnes
the nature of large scale Bureaucracy will squash creativity and variations from the norm, even those beneficial to society at large