Stalinism: The First Global Crisis Within an Economic System

Stalin created a deformed worker state to use Trotsky's terms that was in the capitalist world system. He really did that through a state mechanism that socialized profit for the most part. It was a genuine alternative to Western capitalism. But instead of as it was envisioned by Marx and Trotsky and Lenin, which would have been industrially producing and capturing surplus. The Soviet Union built on bloodshed but not fundamentally enthralled to capital and private capital as a social life.