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Was the Soviet Union and other 20th century Marxist-Leninist states merely Positivist states without the economic imperialism?
I've been working on this question for the last day or so, since I started thinking about it.
>Concept of a Government of Experts planning the future of the country
>Building up industry
>Transitioning a "backwards" country to modernity
The real difference is that the Latin American countries that adopted Positivist governing tactics around the same time were reliant on Western businessmen to build the industry in a system where much of the wealth leaves the country, the state control of the means of production kept that money in the country and led to the government lasting longer than some of the ones in Latin America. But in the end much of what the Soviets did was Positivist.
(The same thing can be said about the PRC, Cuba and Vietnam especially)
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>>1312985
Nothing wrong with foreigners investing. Sure they get the profits but you get to use/buy whatever they invest in which you didn't have the option to before. Now if you have a banana republic where they control the state that's bad, but the same could be said for any group holding the state not just foreign investors per se.
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>>1313007
I'm not making an opinion on any ideology, this is merely a thesis, not a judgment on Leninism or Positivism or Stalin, just something I'd do for a Master's thesis if I were to go to grad school for Russian history (I'd focus on the early Soviet Union likely as the early 20th century and ideology are two things I'm really into
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>>1313007
>being this defensive for capitalism that any discussion on development is seen as an attack on your ideology
class cuckery knows no bounds
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>>1312985
I'm not sure what you mean by positivist, here. Could you clarify?
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>>1313948
>Vigilantly on the lookout for potentially subversive memes
>Ok, "class cuckery" looks like it's got legs, lets sink it
>Make sure to respond to a reasonable informative post about capitalism with the term to make it look dumb
>Rinse and repeat
Teach me your ways
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