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2016-06-20 22:22:17 Post No. 1312985
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2016-06-20 22:22:17
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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)
