The Decline and Fall of Soviet Economics

Dimes and Judas swing into a review of the book “Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II” by Sean McMeekin. An exhaustive exploration of Stalin’s agitation of international conflict for the Soviet Union’s benefit, it lays out a model for international relations that explains the role of Communism in the 20th century as much more realistically antagonistic. This leads into a discussion of the book “Building a Ruin” by Yakov Feygin. There they learn about the history of Soviet economic reform during the cold war, the market demands that handicapped their success, and how the Communist model was forced to cynically converge towards technocracy like everyone else. Taken from Episodes #297 – You should do THAT THING to YOU KNOW WHO & #298 – A Very Special Sola GPTuahTimestamps:00:08 – “Stalin’s War” Discussion Begins05:31 – Staling was Not an Aberration in the History of Soviet Leaders11:49 – The Red Army and Soviet International as an Offensive Force20:18 – The Nature of War is Everyone’s Getting Raped and Shot24:45 – The Class-Against-Class Doctrine and Exporting Revolution30:39 – Soviet Lebensraum32:38 – Roosevelt Bullied by Stalin39:30 – Stalin Refuses the Tripartite Act Unless Given All The Land42:25 – The Lend/Lease Program that Saved the Soviet Conquest47:26 – America was Already Infiltrated by Communist Agents Directing Action51:21 – Discussions on How Much to Brutalize Germany59:35 - “Building a Ruin” Discussion Begins1:03:50 – The Left/Right Axis Inside the Soviet Union1:06:56 – The STR and Technocracy1:10:39 – The Necessity of a Large Consumer Market and Not Just Production1:17:09 – Planned Obsolescence Supercharged by Central AI Planning1:22:06 – Stalin’s Economic Model of Revolutionary Savings and the Middle-Income Trap1:26:19 – The Spirit of Socialism Died First1:29:15 – Economics vs. Politics1:33:09 – The Suppression of Consumer Markets in Favor of Investing1:37:03 – Central Committee Controlled by Economics who Never Started a Business1:41:34 – The Soviet Theories of Value1:45:53 – Japan Escaped the Middle-Income Trap1:51:39 – Economic Cynicism Leading to Convergence Theory