Re: [Marxism] Bureaucracy and Revolutions (part a)

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>> It is silly to treat a phrase in an article intended to emphasize  that 
under NEP electrification of the whole country was the USSR's highest  
priority (which was why Trotsky was put in charge of electrification when he  
stepped down from the Commissariat for War) as some sort of theoretical  
pronouncement. What should be emphasized is the contrast of the Lenin-Trotsky  
policy to the outlook embodied in the phrase that Stalin pronounced to the  
Central Committee when he was denouncing the Opposition as 
superindustrializers:  "Russia needs Dnieperstroy like the muzhik needs a 
gramophone"  (sure,  
Stalin reversed course on industrialization--but his contempt for the muzhik, 
as  for the soviets themselves, only became even more monstrous). <<
 
 
Comment
 
Perhaps, you might consider giving yourself an opportunity to understand  
the issue. 
 
While it is true that velocity is important, what determines velocity is  
not "velocity" or policy. Policy can only make manifest a velocity determined 
by  something else. Much of this discussion is about the something else. It 
is a  measure of the "something else" that in turn effects policy. 
 
Lenin conception of communism in all of his writings leave much to be  
desired. Some support this conception and some do not. 
 
I do not. 
 
 
WL. 
 
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