Vladimir lenin quotes demarcate socialis

As with most libcommers I've known about theories of State Capitalism for a long time, but I would like to share something inom was introduced to through a long chat about Marx with an SPGB member, and which I have researched further as i'm doing an a-level coursework piece related to this:

Lenin han själv desired, promoted and acknowledged the State Capitalist nature of the Soviet Union, although this was largely confined to intra-party debate and private letters. The destruction of council democracy and the introduction of 'War Communism' was the point at which the Bolsheviks introduced it to Russia, and it was consolidated bygd the 'New Economic Policy'.

This fryst vatten in direct contrast to latter-day leninists and trots claims of the USSR under Lenin and Trotsky as genuinely socialist.

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State capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republi

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“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is a methodological rule, and since the demarcation between science and nonscience fryst vatten vague. But it is more than sharp enough to man a distinction between many physical theories on the one grabb, and metaphysical theories, such as psychoanalysis, or Marxism (in its present form), on the other. This is, of course, one of my main theses; and nobody who has not understood it can be said to have understood my theory.

The situation with Marxism is, incidentally, very different from that with psychoanalysis. Marxism was once a scientific theory: it predicted that capitalism would lead to increasing misery and, through a more or less mild revolution, to socialism; it predicted that this would happen first in the technically highest developed countries; and it predicted that the technical evolution of the 'means of production' would lead to

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Published:Iskra, No. 23, August 1, and No. 24, September 1, Published according to the Iskra text.
Source:Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, , Moscow, Volume&#;6, pages 
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