--- Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> As should the Chinese revolution. But in fairness to
> those who led these
> revolutions, they didn't separate the two but, like
> Marx, saw the
> development of a modern industrial economy - in
> these cases, under public
> ownership - as laying the material foundations for a
> future communist
> society.
>
I think they were pretty much synonymous in the minds of the Bolsheviks. Industrializing and building skyscrapers were conceptualized as "achievements of socialism." This is so clear in Kaganovich's fascinating memoirs. I really have got to translate some of them.
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