• uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    If we look at the rhetoric, the soviet state was certainly left wing, but the main policy was state capitalism. To my mind, state capitalism is not a right wing (favors private control of industry) nor a left wing (favors worker control of industry) policy.

    This is definitely a case where pure left/right dichotomy doesn’t serve to accurately describe the situation on the ground.