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Simple guide to socialism (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

Lenin's 'war communism' was little more than state-sponsored looting (which, to be fair, is far from unusual in times of crisis; it is not, however, much of an innovation or a path to socialism); while the NEP was the exact social democratic reformism that the Bolsheviks were supposedly against, only without the pesky 'democracy' bit the SRs liked.