Preobrazhensky certainly understood that Soviet industrialization required a kind of primitive accumulation. The question that I have is the extent to which Robert C. Allen has defended Preobrazhensky's plans. One important point about A and R is that unlike most bourgeois thinkers they do not deny the liberating and productive role of revolution and revolutionary institutional change and even war in bringing about a bourgeois order out of feudalism and absolutism. They do not think such an order would have simply developed "organically" in, say, France or Japan without revolutionary political struggle. They put politics in command. LR
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