Lenin was the ultimate practitioner of dialectics and exploitation of contradictions in “capitalist” countries, and the 8-year NEP was his crowning achievement. Four years into the revolution, Soviet Russia was teetering on collapse, economically and politically. Collectivization of ag produced less than before 1917, there was no hard currency, nationalists in Ukraine (among others) agitated for independence, sailors in Kronstadt revolted, etc.
By appearing to soften on ideology, Lenin gained time to restore the economy. Western industries, rope in hand, rushed to set up shop in partnership with the Soviets, western central banks gladly loaned fiat currency and financed infrastructure. At the same time, independence movements were appeased with a sop to federalism by creation of a union of “republics,” the USSR. This was also the period of Operation Trust.
When the objectives had been achieved, the mask was dropped, businesses nationalized, loans defaulted, currency confiscated, etc. The NEP was followed by the inevitable terror and repression, the “liquidation of kulacs as a class,” and the purges of the Great Terror.
No matter what costume he wears, the wolf is always a carnivorous predator.
The use of the word communism is a ploy in my view. Instead of naming names as you have done, but then wash it with using the word, now the blame is on some abstract idealism.
"There is this joke that James Bond was sent to Moscow to find out what’s happening there under Gorbachev and he goes to the bakery and there is no bread, and he writes in a little notebook “No bread”; he goes to the butcher shop, no meat, and writes “No meat.” There is a KGB officer following him and the officer looked over his shoulder and said, “A year ago, you would be shot for doing that.” And Bond then writes “No bullets anymore.” When there were no bullets, people stopped working, because under socialism, the only way to work is under a threat to your life or to the life of your loved ones, because there is absolutely no incentive to do anything. And that’s what Mr. Gorbachev did not understand."
Lenin was the ultimate practitioner of dialectics and exploitation of contradictions in “capitalist” countries, and the 8-year NEP was his crowning achievement. Four years into the revolution, Soviet Russia was teetering on collapse, economically and politically. Collectivization of ag produced less than before 1917, there was no hard currency, nationalists in Ukraine (among others) agitated for independence, sailors in Kronstadt revolted, etc.
By appearing to soften on ideology, Lenin gained time to restore the economy. Western industries, rope in hand, rushed to set up shop in partnership with the Soviets, western central banks gladly loaned fiat currency and financed infrastructure. At the same time, independence movements were appeased with a sop to federalism by creation of a union of “republics,” the USSR. This was also the period of Operation Trust.
When the objectives had been achieved, the mask was dropped, businesses nationalized, loans defaulted, currency confiscated, etc. The NEP was followed by the inevitable terror and repression, the “liquidation of kulacs as a class,” and the purges of the Great Terror.
No matter what costume he wears, the wolf is always a carnivorous predator.
Excellent comment. And those that funded the Bolshevik Revolution profited on all sides of the deal.
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
--Vladimir Lenin
“While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.”
--Vladimir Lenin
Fantastic article, 2SG.
More simply excellent work!
Go BTC!
I really like it when someone uses Commie instead of Communist.
My kinda guy.
BUT TO GET A+, IT'S:
COMMIE BASTARDS
And a pedophile like the rest of our ruling class:
https://www.henrymakow.com/2019/07/John-Maynard-Keynes.html?_ga=2.148007794.438338851.1653914082-1365372548.1653914082
Yes. All businesses that make money in this paradigm are recipients of the fiat money system, doesn't matter receiving subsidies or not.
Keynes is not a commie. He was a full blown fascist. As are most stake/shareholders of this economic/social system.
Commune: https://classic.net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=Commune
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/commune
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commune
You are being a part of the scam to blame something other than the people who are at the heart of this great reset?
You do realize that Klaus has a bust of Lenin in his office, yes?
Fascism, communism and socialism are very close cousins.
The use of the word communism is a ploy in my view. Instead of naming names as you have done, but then wash it with using the word, now the blame is on some abstract idealism.
Blame the communes, kill all the hippies!
yes closely related but larson is wrong they are the worst kind of communists
BOLSHEVIC / MARXISTS
No Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria?
"You should be shot!"
"There is this joke that James Bond was sent to Moscow to find out what’s happening there under Gorbachev and he goes to the bakery and there is no bread, and he writes in a little notebook “No bread”; he goes to the butcher shop, no meat, and writes “No meat.” There is a KGB officer following him and the officer looked over his shoulder and said, “A year ago, you would be shot for doing that.” And Bond then writes “No bullets anymore.” When there were no bullets, people stopped working, because under socialism, the only way to work is under a threat to your life or to the life of your loved ones, because there is absolutely no incentive to do anything. And that’s what Mr. Gorbachev did not understand."
Here you go: https://2ndsmartestguyintheworld.substack.com/p/a-peek-inside-klaus-nazi-20-schwabs?s=w
Bitcoin requires a lot of energy, its a loser.
Similar use case as gold. Though the latter has a bit more history to it, the former was modeled after it.