How Planned was the Soviet Economy
As Marxists claim that capitalism is 'anarchic, planless, inefficient and wastes human and natural resources', what with the modern advances made by Russia in such a short space of time, one would assume that the Soviet economy between 1924 and 1939 was meticulously planned and controlled. However, many facts would beg to differ and instead suggest the contrary.
It is true that institutes of planning existed in Russia in the period concerned. As of July 1922, VSNKh operated its control over industry by "methods of a production-planning character". The institution was responsible for the drafting of production and disposal plans amongst other things.
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One must not overlook the timing of the First Plan and brand it an accident. The Left Opposition had originally proposed rapid industrialization to be the part's primary priority. Now that they had been defeated the government was able to adopt their industrialization policies without putting them in power. Industrialization also came hand in hand with collectivisation as machinery such as tractors had to be produced.
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