Was the USSR Socialist or State Capitalist?
Link to my Discord: / discord Link to my Patreon: / fellowtraveler Timestamps: 0:00 - Introduction, or left wing anti-communist rant 4:15 - Defining what socialism is 6:22 - Defining what capitalism is 9:22 - Was the USSR really socialist? 11:46 - Bureaucrats as a class 12:28 - Exploitation in the USSR 13:16 - The Soviet Union didn't achieve classlessness 15:31 - Socialism is only possible globally 17:21 - Commodity production 18:35 - Not decentral / democratic enough 21:00 - The Kosygin reform 22:59 - On Khrushchev 25:00 - Lenin said the USSR was state capitalist 26:20 - The USSR was authoritarian 29:04 - Outro
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State Capitalism - Why the USSR Wasn't Socialist - Amy Leather
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Why Am I Not a Trotskyist?
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Socialists against Socialism - Or How to Spot a Sophist
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What Lenin Understood about Organizing (that many Leftists still don't)
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USSR was not "State Capitalism" - What is Bureaucracy?
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Proving Once And For All That The USSR Was Indeed Socialist And Not State Capitalist
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The Moscow Trials (Part 1: the investigation)
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State Capitalist or Market Socialist? The Social Character of the People's Republic of China
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Communism saved Eastern Europe
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Chomsky on Marx, Lenin and Socialism
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Farm to Factory: The Soviet Industrial Revolution
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Why the Left Keeps Failing (Lenin Saw This Coming)
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The Truth About East Germany
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Was the Soviet Union Socialist?
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Soviet Famine of 1932: An Overview
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Why Socialists Should Support LGBT and other Civil Rights Struggles - Response to Paul Cockshott
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Denmark Just Did Something to ISLAM Everyone Else Is Too AFRAID To Do
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The West‘s 100-Year War To Destroy Russia | Michael J. Carley
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