Who would have run the ussr best ?

nikolai burkhan, trotsky or stalin ?

Bukharin.

He was the only Bolshevik with any degree of common sense whatsoever. And he disliked mass killings, unlike the other two.

j e r e m y

Lenin

From what little I know, probably Bukharin.

Trotsky probably, since he had the original idea of doing most of the good things the Stalinist regime ended up doing.

I think Bukharin would probably be good for a few years, but then the threat of Fascism would either force him into the arms of the liberal capitalists diplomatically or force him to adopt planned industrialization too. If he chose the diplomatic route, he'd probably have to concede a few strategic points to Britain and France and allow the connection between Russian producers and the world market, killing the revolution in the long run and turning the Soviet Union into a PRC-type situation.

This happened with Stalin too.

He just prolonged it and killed a few million people in the process.

they are all worse

You had one job

Was this all part of his master plan?

Bukharin > Stalin > Trotsky

how tho, the Soviet state continued to dominate the economy, more so than ever

None of the above. They're all opportunist social democrats. All power to the soviets.
Take off that flag.

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74d snakes and ladders

That being said, the Country would have functioned better under a regime more in line with Trotsky's ideas in The Revolution Betrayed than under Stalinism. So I'd cautiously say Trotsky is the best but o my if he actually would have done what he said he would have done after he was exiled.

Whoever would have lifted the ban on factions. I think Trotsky was more likely to have done it than the other two, honestly.

Bukharin. State capitalism "works", just look at China.

You're a dumbass if you think an individual in a place as powerful as that of the Soviet leader is something of no consequence. You people misinterpret the Great Man Theory and you take rejection of it to a point of complete denial of individual agency and quasi-religious determinism.

Trotsky was unpredictable when his ass got red

Trotsky imo

Not shooting Tukhachevsky and the boys, a focus on decentralised planning, and letting other socialist factions organise are all elements that would seem like it'd be the best choice in terms of policies, despite Trotsky being outmaneuvered politically irl.

I heard this before and where are you guys getting "decentralised" from?

I'm not asking rhetorically. I've read a bit on Trotsky and always got the impression that he too believed in centralisation. Maybe I forgot to read some programme or whatever.

The actual soviets and councils themselves

One of the main economic policies of the left opposition was to empower the soviets at the expense of the bureaucracy. Then,to industrialise using the surplus of the nepmen and kulaks, planned by the soviets.

Infastructure and the military etc would've been centrally planned still but most production would be managed by local soviets, hence the moniker of 'decentralised'.

BTFO

The people. As Lenin said, "all power to the soviets!"

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The way it should have been

What the FUCK did he mean by this?

He only wanted that because his faction was in the minority.

Best choice can only be…

THIS INANIMATE CARBON ROD!

not how it works tbh
Pretty much anyone would have failed/achieved the same as the ussr did achieve. It was a doomed endeavour from the start.

Should have been someone from the Red Army to spread communism by force.

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Leader: Soviets
Gulag: Trotsky, Stalin
Painter: Bukharin

Lol who? Did he even run a country once?
Traitor to the socialist revolution

The choice is obvious with this one lads

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He couldn't even conquer tinny little Poland
What a fucking looser

No one.

Yeah, he just founded the red army and repelled a three front invasion, read a fucking book.

Sounds about right

nah

he was a pussy afraid of kulaks

he has my vote
go fuck dem kulaks, Stalin!

What are the best books to read about Bukharin?

A naive retard, a kike and bad goy that knew what had to be done. Yeah Stalin it is

ABCs of Communism
Economics of the Leisure Class
Imperialism and World History
Poverty of statism: anarchism vs Marxism

Reminder that the polish forces of reaction are the reason we don't have communism yet :^)

Stalin did nothing wrong. Trotsky would do the same if he took his place.

Nice and humble guy, his gradual approach would avoided tensions with farmers. Just a little problem with it: that you get run over by the Nazis. But in a parallel dimension without the Nazi thing happening, sure.

wat

fuck poland tbh

my main man right here

Is that Nicholas 2 undercover? Or is he in cahoots with Trotsky

How deep does that rabbit hole go?