What plan did Lenin develop?

Question by doggy: What plan did Lenin develop knowing that communism was a radical change and that people would need to be eased?
into? It also allowed free enterprise, for small businesses,while the Soviet government seized control of heavy industry and banking.

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Answer by One Cool Marxist
In all truth, Lenin knew only how to mobilize people for a revolution. You see, in order for Socialism to be achieved anywhere, a society must have passed through the historical phases of Primitive Communism, Slavery, Feudalism, and Capitalism (Communism is after Socialism, and is the dissolution of the State). If you may have noticed, Russia had not even begun to Capitalize (just look at the huge serf population and the tsar!). Lenin recognized that Socialism had to be a radical change, it had to be a mass revolution. Socialism cannot be legislated, after all. However, Lenin also had plans for Ultra-Centralism, where the government becomes some sort of uber-blanket of control (more proof on how it’s not Socialism).

It is clear that Lenin must have realized that Capitalism was necessary at some point, as he attempted to create some degree of a free market, but this was pretty much decimated under Stalin. What the USSR actually was, was State Capitalism, a form of Capitalism where the government is the Capitalist (as opposed to Socialism, a collective-distributive economy).

It was almost impossible to think of “easing” people into Lenin’s world. The population was “1000 times more radical than the Bolsheviks” as one paper once noted. Hopefully this has helped somewhat (although it’s a bit disorganized).

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