[lbo-talk] Then end of Stalinism was a good thing

[Chris Doss]

I think so. It certainly was during Stalin (then again, Great Depression and all that). It was a superpower, after all. You don't go from having a small army to having a giant army with no growth.

Rapid industrialization and corresponding high early growth rates are exactly what central planning is good at. What it is bad at is allocating the results of that early growth later on.

----- Original Message ----
From: Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com>

Wasn't it growing faster than the US until the late 60s/early 70s? (Not a
fair comparison, since the West was more developed, but...)
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