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raginrayguns:

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it\u2019s kind of ironic that the Germans were obsessed with American economies of scale and mass production (\u201dFordism\u201d) but it was the Russians who actually achieved it in practice.

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it\u2019s kind of ironic that the British communist Bernal thought Russian agriculture would be so great because, through collectivization, they could farm with the efficiency of an industrial monopoly. When it was Americans who achieved this in practice.

I don\u2019t actually know real facts about this, I\u2019m just judging from 20th-century complaints about the end of small family farms and the rise of enormous conglomerated farms.

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there\u2019s a lot of irony to go around!

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