Re:Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs
by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:21AM
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The NEP wasn't (in its own theory) state capitalism but a transition from war communism (which I think was, even in its own theory, still state capitalism) but to a mix of “socialized” industry and state-guided private capitalism. (Yes , critics would say that the “socialized” industries were really state capitalist and that the degree of centralized “guidance” made the private sector also state capitalism, but we’re talking about what Lenin and the internal theory of the USSR portrayed it as, where it was a different temporary stepping stone to fully socialized industry.)
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Re:Economists are revising their views on robots and jobs
by DarylZero on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:33PM
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> The NEP wasn't (in its own theory) state capitalism
That's not what wikipedia says. I can't argue as I am no expert in such matters myself having read almost none of the primary material (but I did read "The Tax In Kind"... which I was assuming outlined the theory of the NEP).
Wikipedia on NEP:
Lenin considered the NEP as a strategic retreat from socialism. He believed it was capitalism, but justified it by insisting that it was a different type of capitalism, "state capitalism", the last stage of capitalism before socialism evolved.[15]