memes

In the mid-1930S, a debate is raging in the Politburo of the Bolshevik. will there be money in communism or not? The Leftist Trotskytes claim there will be no money since money is only needed in societies with private ownership, while the Rightist partisans of Bukharin claim that of course there will be money in communism since every complex society needs money to regulate the exchange or products. When, finally, Comrade Stalin intervenes, he rejects both the Leftist and the Rightist deviations, claiming that the truth is a higher dialectical synthesis of the opposites. When other Politburo members ask him how this synthesis will look, Stalin calmly answers: “There will be money and there will not be money. Some will have money and others will not have it.”

I remember this like HOI4 focus tree for the USSR (I know, I know) where it said the left for trotsky, the center for stalin and the right for bukharin, and that gave me a bit of curiosity in what it meant and so I researched and got around to the same vague sense of thought that I eventually pressed on to actual Soviet research.

BTW, if you have seen a WW2-era USSR HOI4 focus tree that isn't vanilla (which, admittedly has a lot of flaws) let me know.

This would be really funny if not for the ableist language