What caused the soviet economy to stagnate?
Was stagnation unavoidable?
Was Gorbachev simply trying to reform a broken system and it would have collapsed anyway or was he responsible?
Questions regarding the collapse of ussr
William Lee
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Camden Martinez
The left couldn't meme.
Anthony Cox
Communism just doesn't work, remember the 800 billion.
In all honesty that's a very complicated topic and I think you could find better information over at >>>/marx/
Tyler Brown
This.
Gavin Cook
They empowered the bureaucrats/managerial strata starting in the '50s, leading to a death spiral.
Bureaucrats get more political power -> Bureaucrats siphon off more money to themselves
Bureaucrats get more money -> Bureaucrats get more political power
Bureaucrats need to be constantly gulaged and terrorized so they don't start thinking they "own" the country. Otherwise, you might as well not have a revolution anyway, since it will always end up in capitalism.
Dylan Powell
Ryder Ross
Gorbachev's reformers had several interesting ideas (like increasing salaries while increasing housing fees to encourage innovation and reasonable use of resources). Attempts to combine economic reforms with political reforms and their opportunistic implementation resulted in disaster. As a result they severely weakened central power, authority of the KPSS, skyrocketed budget deficit and goods shortages. Eventually populists came to power in every soviet republic and destroyed any ability for further reforms and eventually very existence of the Soviet State.
Samuel Brooks
Wait did a Stalinstash just use the trot analysis of bureaucracy?
Also ladiez and gents if this sounds familiar, that is because neocons adopted it for their analysis of the social democratic state.
Liam Fisher
based tbh
Jeremiah Gray
Read Hoxha