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Lenin would not have been critical of the equivalent of that image in 1921 Russia, where the industry was heavily destroyed by the civil war and where there were no capabilities of planning the entire economy at once. The conditions in today’s China are very different, yet this “NEP” shows zero signs of being rolled back.

just a moderate social democrat who likes Soviet symbols

Yes, that is what Stalinism is (see for example KPRF, CPUSA, all of the Comintern immediately after WW2…)

The people left over after the purges are, if anything, an indictment of Stalin

Both “solutions” are still possible under capitalism. which is exactly why they are non-solutions. Neither one can fix any inherent trait of capitalism, such as its tendency to create monopolies.

Fortunately, there are other options: for example, a planned economy.

it is good that the title of “socialist” will be very publicly tacked on to rent being frozen for 4 years, free busses, childcare, etc.

inb4 he wins and doesn’t do any of that

any “n-bit value” fails to model nontermination. clearly a pointed dCPO.