--- boddi satva <lbo.boddi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Think of it this way: because the tsarist system was
> so unbelievably
> bad, there was relatively little risk that you could
> screw it up
> worse. The basics were not provided for. The
> feudalistic government
> had little interest in expanding the economy (so
> long as they were
> happy). The Bolsheviks promised not only economic
> fairness but
> economic expansion and simply by moving capital from
> the rich out to
> the rest of the economy they were able to do it -
> for a start.
>
Wait a second -- the Soviet economic booms were the NEP and the Stalin industrialization. Neither involved expropriation of the rich.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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