Stalin's dialectical synthesis on money in communism
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Left radicals (Trotskyists) say no money in communism, Bukharin says money is natural; Stalin's dialectical 'synthesis', in communism there will be money and there will not be money: some people will have money, others will not.
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As told 14
“In communism there will be money and there will not be money, synthesis... some people will have money, others will will not have money”
“The true solution is the dialectical synthesis of both. There will be money and there will be no money... some people will have money, others will not have money.”
“there will be a dialectical synthesis of opposites: there will be money and there will not be money… Some people will have money, other people will not.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 4 jobsuses
dialectical synthesis of opposites
×4
my stalinism / benevolent stalinism
×4
stalinist dialectical materialist vision
×3
Aufhebung
×2
Its cast and sources
populated by
Nikolai Bukharin7Wolfgang Schäuble3Louis Antoine de Saint-Just4Jeremy Rifkin3Raymond Kurzweil5Rodrigo Duterte2Hillary Clinton5Jarosław Kaczyński3
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Every retelling 14
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The Politburo debates whether communism will have money. Right says yes; left says no. Stalin: 'Both are wrong, the dialectical synthesis is that there will be money and there will be no money.' Asked to explain: 'Some people will have money, others will not.', illustrating class society,AI and post-humanity,dialectics as cover for power
In a Central Committee debate on whether communism will have money, right-wingers (Bukharinites) say yes, left-wingers (Trotskyites) say no. Stalin intervenes: 'You are both wrong, there will be a dialectical synthesis: there will be money and there will not be money.' When pressed to explain, he says: 'It's simple. Some people will have money, other people will not.', illustrating dialectical synthesis of opposites,class division,Stalinist pseudo-dialectics,biotechnology and inequality
At a Politburo meeting debating whether communism will have money, Bukharin says yes (natural exchange medium), Trotskytes say no (alienation). Stalin proposes the dialectical synthesis: there will be money and there will not be money. Asked to explain, he answers: some people will have money, other people will not., illustrating Aufhebung,Stalinism,fake dialectics,communism
The Politburo debates whether communism will have money: Bukharin says yes, Trotskyists say no. Stalin proposes a dialectical synthesis, there will be money and there will not be money. Asked to explain: 'Some people will have money and other people will not have money.', illustrating parody of dialectics,inequality under actually existing socialism,Stalinist cynicism
Politburo debates whether there will be money in communism; right-wingers say yes, leftists say no, Stalin proposes the dialectical synthesis: there will be money and there will not, some people will have money, others won't., illustrating pseudo-dialectics,Stalinist ideology,inequality under socialism