How did a country that despised private trade and private ownership manage to provide millions of people with everything they needed? Is it true that private business as such did not exist in the USSR? So, who, then, was behind… Read More ›
Vladimir Lenin
Work-Standard Account Practices: Marxist Critiques of Double-Entry Account Bookkeeping
Compared to the previous two Entries that focused on Environmentalism and Feminism, Marxist Theory posited its own criticisms of Double-Entry Account Bookkeeping that differed from the other two ideologies. While Environmentalism is divided over Kapital and Feminism has somewhat conformed… Read More ›
Thus Spoke Lenin: On Prussian State Capitalism (Pt. III of III)
“But this again is a fundamental importance. It is one thing to draw out fantastic plans for building Socialism through all sorts of workers associations, and quite another to learn to build Socialism in practice in such a way that… Read More ›
Update (26 January 2023)
Patience does have its benefits. After spending the past day pondering over how best to proceed with Part III of “On Prussian State Capitalism,” I am immediately reminded of my past playthroughs of Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. There are… Read More ›
On “Nationalism and Class Struggle”
Bogumil, The National Bolshevik perspective on the “Class Struggle” is insightful on making distinctions between it and the concept of “Class Collaboration” as promoted by Corporatism. The classical definition of Class Struggle in the Marxist sense has often meant a… Read More ›
Thus Spoke Lenin: On Prussian State Capitalism (Pt. II of III)
“State Capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic. If in approximately six months’ time State Capitalism became established in our Republic, this would be a great success and a… Read More ›
Thus Spoke Lenin: On Prussian State Capitalism (Pt. I of III)
“What is State Capitalism under Soviet power? To achieve State Capitalism at the present time means putting into effect the accounting and control that the capitalist classes carried out. We see a sample of State Capitalism in Germany. We know… Read More ›
Philosophical Ponderings of Soviet Collapse (Pt. II of II)
Back in the previous post, I began my discussion by addressing the various interpretations that sought to explain why the Soviet Union dissolved. The three most common ones are: There is a fourth one that articulates its conclusions from the… Read More ›
Philosophical Ponderings of Soviet Collapse (Pt. I of II)
What brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union? Depending on the perspective, one is bound to come away with different interpretations. Here in America and the Western world, the explanation is purely economic and technical. I documented some of… Read More ›
Conservative Socialism: On Julius Krein (Pt. II of II)
In another American Conservative publication, American Compass, Julius devoted an article to the question of economic planning within Hamiltonianism. He maintained throughout “Planning for When the Market Cannot” that there will always be a necessity for economic planning in any… Read More ›
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