[Suska]

I'm sorry, this thread is ridiculous. Maybe I'm really thick, w/e, or maybe you guys are just slowly stroking your polisci degrees.

Agricultural socialism was the norm in pre civil war America among the Quaker communities and still is among the Mennonites and Amish. In fact, Agricultural socialism was even more or less the norm in Feudal Europe and all agricultural communities beginning with agriculture itself. Sure there were problems with it - or lets say, with calling it that when serfs wound up paying a lord to not destroy them. But the fact is small agricultural communities are naturally socialist cooperatives with a basically nominal headman. This applies east and west. The Kibbutz movement is probably the best attested non-traditional/deliberate attempt.

[Tally-oh]

False. War communism was good for what it was designed for.

But not for peasants or public relations.

Many in the Party were hostile to the NEP from day one and even considered it a departure from socialist principles. And it had its own problems anyway. Eventually even Lenin would've abandoned it when the time was right.

If Bukharin had taken power it would probably have been accelerated.

[I Killed Keynes]

Would we be allowed to use those products in from farming in industry as well? If there is no industry any country on any system would fall far behind, or would we be living in a different world economic system?