979 Should there at all be a need for agricultural pricing in Communism or Marxism or True Total Socialism? Lenin ought not to have gone back to bourgeoisie methods!

Something seems to be wrong with me. Either my expectations are too high, or Socialist Dreams tend to be unrealistic. The deeper and deeper I go into the manner in which Lenin led the organisation of the Communist Society/Governance, in the post Bolshevik Revolution 1917 (Also October Revolution 1917), I am getting more and more disappointed. However, these disappointments do not make me to drift to conclude that Marxism is un-experiment-ible. Nothing can be condemned as unexperimentible as long as such experiments do not lead to grave consequences and catastrophies such as genocides, massacres and extreme misery(ies) to the poorest. We know too well the monstrasities of Capitalism, and the World has been experiencing them for the last several Centuries. True, Communism too has contributed many-a-horror, but we have to keep in mind that, it had never started in any country, in its true form. Only labels were made. Only appearances were made. May be deliberately or intentionally. Or Communism/Marxism were not properly understood by their leaders. They were venerated. Huge Statues of theirs were erected. Cities were named after them (Leningrad, Stalingrad). Whether historic errors were realised or not, contrition took place or not. Statues were destroyed, Severed heads rolled.

Many questions rack our minds. First of all why the statues were erected? And why the statues were rolled down, like packs of card or heaps of bricks?

TRUE, we have to concede that perfection is never attainable

True, we have to concede that perfection is never attainable. But, there cannot be a volte-face in goals. There can be no U-Turn. There can be no flip-flops. Zig-zag paths and road maps may become necessary.

Lenin's New Economic Policy is nothing but a volte-face.

NEW ECONOMIC POLICY OF LENIN. source: Wikipedia.org>

The New Economic Policy was an economic policy of Soviet Russia proposed by Vladimir Lenin, who described it as a progression towards "state capitalism" within the workers' state of the USSR.[1] Lenin characterized “state capitalism” and his NEP policies in 1922 as an economic system that would include “a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control” while socialized state enterprises were to operate on “a profit basis.”[2]

The NEP represented a more capitalism-oriented economic policy, deemed necessary after the Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1922, to foster the economy of the country, which was almost ruined. The complete nationalization of industry, established during the period of War Communism, was partially revoked and a system of mixed economy was introduced, which allowed private individuals to own small enterprises,[3] while the state continued to control banks, foreign trade, and large industries.[4] In addition, the NEP abolished prodrazvyorstka (forced grain requisition)[3] and introduced prodnalog: a tax on farmers, payable in the form of raw agricultural product.[5] The Bolshevik government adopted the NEP in the course of the 10th Congress of the All-Russian Communist Party (March 1921) and promulgated it by a decree on 21 March 1921 "On the Replacement of Prodrazvyorstka by Prodnalog". Further decrees refined the policy.

Other policies included the monetary reform (1922–1924) and the attraction of foreign capital.

The NEP policy created a new category of people called NEPmen (нэпманы), nouveau riches due to NEP.

Joseph Stalin abolished the New Economic Policy in 1928.

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