Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "maneco64" channel.

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  4. Just reading a very good book by Orlando Figes: "A People's Tragedy -- The Russian Revolution". He describes the desperate struggle of the Bolsheviks, in the immediate aftermath of their claim to power, with the workers and peasantry alarmed at the extent to which they were suffering; "...there were some Bolsheviks on the extreme left who thought that inflation should be encouraged in order to phase out money altogether. They wanted to replace the money system with a universal system of goods allocation on the basis of coupons from the state." (Does that ring any bells?) Figes goes on to mention an economist of the time, Preobrazhensky, who dedicated a book he had just written, "To the printing presses of the Commissariat of Finance -- that machine gun which shot the bourgeoise regime in its arse: the monetary system." In Figes' own words, "Left wing Bolsheviks saw the ration coupon as the founding deed of the Communist order." Citing another character of the period, a Professor Vasili Vodovozov's accounts are given, of his desperate search for food on a typical day in 1920 Petrograd. It sounds like the accounts that must have stirred Orwell in his description of the near starvation levels experienced by Winston Smith. A man-made hell, of streets crowded with starving people. Again in Figes' words: "The key to this Communist utopia was the control of the food supply: without that the government had no means of controlling the economy and society." We are in the fight of and for our lives.
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