I'm reading Kaganovich's memoires right now, and he seems to have been completely convinced that in the 1930s the country was full of "German-Japanese-Trotskyist" cells of saboteurs that had to be crushed ot the country would be too weak to withstand invasion. He's convinced me that he was completely convinced, at any rate.
--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> Since 1917, humanity has had an enormous amount of
> practical experience with
> building socialism. The main lesson learned so far
> is not that production
> can't be organized socialistically because of too
> much information in
> consumer preferences or that large scale production
> must have too much
> hiearchy and then morphs into authoritarian or
> "totalitarian" structure. The
> main lesson is that capitalism can and will impose
> such an enormous military
> and terrorist threat on socialist projects that
> these projects cannot give
> up _militarized_ organization of _civilian_ society
> as a defense against
> capitalist aggression. Thus, the socialist projects
> have not had the chance
> to develop that administrative, peaceful and
> democratic organization of a
> socialist economy. The authoritarian and overly
> centralized structure of
> actually existing ( or once existing) socialist
> economies was a destructive
> byproduct of the necessity of military defense
> against capitalist
> aggression, the most powerful and forceful
> aggression in the history of the
> world. The Nazi attack on the SU was the single
> largest aggression in the
> history of humanity. This was just one war of
> capitalism on socialism.
>
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