Edit: /j
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Sure, but we freely traded with each other.
This is a deeply idealist view of production. There is no "invisible hand," no universal Spirit of Hegel. Trade and industrialized production gives way to centralization and the death of competition, and it makes more and more sense economically to plan production and collectivize it as this competition dies out of itself. Communists aren't "holding back" trade, trade naturally gives way to the very structures that compel communism and kill off trade.