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055 - Socialist Labour Time Planning, with Tom O'Brien, Part 1

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Lenin and the Russian Revolution

"I'm gonna slag the hell out of them now but I just kind of want to put it like in a materialist kind of surrounding before we just make out these are just simple bad dudes," says Shane. "Lenin didn't really know anything about planning going into the revolution which that's kind of staggering isn't it?" he adds. 'The only person who really knew anything about the subject was Bukharan because he had spent time in Austria with the whole debate going on there from what I remember' Says Lenin did not contribute anything notable to the development of Marxian planning and has no Marxist precedent for construction of a socialist economy neglecting Marx's model of labor time calculation.

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