Practical socialism isn't any vast improvement on impractical socialism, and might even be considered worse (because more enduring).
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They required external demolition, which suggests some intrinsic robustness. And the New Deal Regime is still with us.
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Lenin switched Bolshevism onto a fascist track in 1921. But his version of pragmatic state management of the economic 'commanding heights' was never as effective as FDR's.
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It's the kind of mess that the NEP was required to bandage.
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... Bolshevism pre-NEP, Maoist Great Leap Forward, Pol Pot killing fields all good representatives.
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The NEP wasn't about collectivization.
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