How could the USSR have been salvaged?

>>2645918
-World Revolution over socialism in one country.
-Less Bureaucracy
-Actual socialism instead of state capitalism

>>2645918
By filling the government up with more hard line stalinists and not capitalist roaders.

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>>2645918
If only Trotsky had taken control, there would be socialism worldwide.

>>2645918
After the failure of internationalism, the USSR was probably doomed. A developing country will never be able to successfully transition to socialism because they lack the requisite capital and are too dependent on the developed world. The best Stalin could provide was industrialization, some social democratic benefits, and a higher standard of living. But even this came at a heavy price.

A socialist revolution needs to happen in the first world and the third. If Filipino workers seize the Japanese-owned factories, there must also be a socialist government in Japan to abet rather than inhibit their socialistic development.

Shut down after Stalin

>>2645935
>this trotskyshit delusion

>>2645935
Nah. That's great man bullshit. USSR would have probably been better domestically under Trotsky, but there was not a reasonable path toward socialism after the suppression of resolutions in Central and Western Europe.

if bolsheviks didnt fail at war with poland they would have been a superpower

They could have abandoned socialism for a start

>>2645918
Taking advantage of the 70s oil crisis and becoming a I can't believe that it is not capitalism-dictatorship ala China.

>>2645935
He lost out because he had shitty hair

>>2646377
>>2646366
Pretty much this. Marxist economics is a complete dumpster fire and is totally unsalvageable. Had the USSR dropped that shit like a sack of bricks they probably could have survived as a single party dictatorship.

>>2645918
The most obvious answer is "keep the NEP in place indefinitely."

>>2645935
Trotsky would've started WWII and aligned the fascists with the capitalists, and I'd rather not live in a world where Adolf Hitler is some great martyr

>>2646377
>>2646899

These basically. Gorbachev wanted market liberalization combined with a Nordic-like welfare state and some retained planning, which might have also worked.

>>2646623

Marxian economics doesn't really give blueprints for running a society; it was just an analysis of capitalism. Central planning did go badly, though.

>>2646922

If anything, Trotsky in charge means that the USSR is more likely to lose World War II to Germany. Stalin's rapid industrialization and "socialism in one country" was brutal but prepared the country to fight a modern war.

>keep the NEP
>enforce and strengthen democracy within party
It would still be shit but far more tolerable.