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Some on the left consider both the US and the USSR to be capitalist (the term used for the latter is often "state capitalism"), not communist.
by icebraining 8y ago
Some on the left consider both the US and the USSR to be capitalist (the term used for the latter is often "state capitalism"), not communist.
- uxp100 8y agoThat's true, though I think mainly because of things that changed as the decades went along, but people were calling the USSR economy a "command" economy since nearly the beginning.
- icebraining 8y agoNo, critics of the Bolsheviks, such as anarchists and left-wing communists, were warning against that since the revolution, and just a little time after people from other countries were doing the same, such as Emma Goldman in her article titled "There Is No Communism in Russia" from 1935.
- uxp100 8y agoI see. I was thinking of Goldman's earlier writings that more about the NEP, but I see that "There Is No Communism in Russia" has the distinction between nationalization and a true "public" ownership. (And it is true that most anarchist writing I've really just skimmed or read many years ago)