----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthias Wasser" <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist?
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Chris Doss
> <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Trotsky could write whatever he wanted, but gradual collectivization and
>> "enticing" (I would love to see what Russian word that is translating)
>> the
>> peasantry is not going to work on a short time frame, which is what the
>> Soviets thought they had (which turned out to be true).
>
>
> Yeah. Stalin publicly criticized collectivization for being implemented
> too
> brutally too.
>
>
>> (Collecivization actually hurt Soviet agriculture, but neither Trotsky or
>> Stalin knew that was going to happen.)
>
>
> Well, it reduced agricultural output. And it moved a lot of people from
> the
> countryside to the cities, which was the whole point.
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