By John Ross It is simply an objective fact that China has made in total the greatest contribution to human well-being of any country – in particular to the most historically oppressed sections of humanity, those therefore of special interest to socialists throughout the world.
I always assumed the serial crises and upheaval of WW2 and the Cold War put experimental policies like that on the back burner and they just never got picked back up.
That’s been my understanding as well, the NEP was abandoned because there was a realization that the USSR would not be able to withstand a war with Germany without rapid mass industrialization.
And the state of emergency was very hard to lift after given that the US got all the Nazis to work on sabotage against the Eastern bloc, not to mention had developed a nuclear weapon and refused to rule out a first strike against the USSR.
I always assumed the serial crises and upheaval of WW2 and the Cold War put experimental policies like that on the back burner and they just never got picked back up.
That’s been my understanding as well, the NEP was abandoned because there was a realization that the USSR would not be able to withstand a war with Germany without rapid mass industrialization.
And the state of emergency was very hard to lift after given that the US got all the Nazis to work on sabotage against the Eastern bloc, not to mention had developed a nuclear weapon and refused to rule out a first strike against the USSR.
Exactly, USSR was under siege from western capitalist powers throughout its whole existence.