Status Updates From What Was the USSR? Towards ...

it's scary to think that Russia is still transitioning to Capitalism... ugh, the washington consensus seems foolish unless we consider the goals to have been severely different

so a lot has clicked, but this part about full employment ... like, it's awkward to talk about it as a flaw & still alienating

well, it feels like the bricks/traincars are starting to click at this point

i was able to discuss that part about aquaman vibes out, so oy vey you can tell im a 90s kid

when they describe money in capitalism vs ussr, i've been getting hbomberguy "aquaman" vibes eminating from me.

I'm at the waste subheading

start on page 53 next time beginning of part 2

so cliff concluding that it was slave labor instead of wage slavery, i've seen that paragraph somewhere before... it's also apparent that the understanding that capitalism is inherently racist hadn't been reached yet

this book has explained the trotsky to neoconservative pipeline, which is basically "bureaucratic collectivism" by bruno rizzi... basically, trotskyists have had a lot of explicit authority on marxism in USA in my lifetime

i also want to mention that when they brought up the peasantry circa 1928, it's why i'm a bit more in favor of very much localized food growth now

this paragraph starting with this sentence is an important paragraph to me
"However, there were a minority within the working class, particularly among its more estab-lished and skilled strata, who could, through their own efforts and under the tutelage of theparty, attain a clear class consciousness."

Only past the introduction. Onto Trotsky chapter