Trotsky points this out a lot in TRB. The USSR's heavy industry was world-class and yet their light industry, agriculture, and consumer goods were a fucking joke compared to even a moderately advanced capitalist country.
Why did USSR have such a boner for heavy industry/machinery instead of consumer goods...
Nolan Roberts
Benjamin Wood
After WWII the USSR was pretty much industrialized for the most part. The problem was that Stalin was a fucking idiot who starved off the Ukrainian "kulaks" (hint: soviets of single family farms that had their own means of production to farm their own land….) to the point that the German army basically left the region deserted. Of course, this is not to mention that Smith's theory of labor value was brain dead from its conception, so that there was never any real need to divert resources from making capital goods because "huehuehue subjective theory of value is bourgeois trash, capital production is more labor intensive and therefore produces more value" even though it was fucking clear to any onlooker that the USSR needed to refocus on consumer goods.
Kayden Price
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Jace Cooper
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Ryder Hall
No they "starved off" themselves. It was evolution. I thought that the capitalists love that social darwinist shit.
Bentley Brown
I'm not a capitalist m8 (as in I want to abolish capitalism). I just think that Marxist economics is ideological garbage for the most part.
Luis Baker
this but i'm unsure if it was ironic to begin with.
Leo Sanchez
well what then lol. Egoist?
If so, welcome to the union of egoists, my property.
Xavier Rivera
1-you cannot escape ideology. 2-Nice debunking there. Really made me reject all Marxist theory.
Jack Bell
Amerigan GDP was twice that of the Soviet Union in 1985, and in 1989 the Soviet military budget was ca 128 billion dollars, while the American military budget was over 400 billion.
federal-budget.insidegov.com
nytimes.com
Yeah it's a real shame the Soviet Union et al wasn't flooded with cheap consumer crap but toys and baubles aren't going to stop Tomahawks or Pattons.