Did Trotsky propose/ support the New economic policy?

[Black Sheep]

Please clarify this, my sources seem to be fucked up... :cursing:
Also post if you know the pros/cons and the reception of the proposal by the CPSU members.

thanks in advance

[Mike Russell]

I don't have much time to cover this,because I'm at work right now. But I'm sure other will come in.
Trotsky did support the nep. But he technically didn't propose it. He did advocate a nep-like plan before the nep was passed. But it was Lenin that proposed it.
It was drawn up when it looked like the revolution wasn't spreading. So it was seen as a temp plan.
I've heard a good arguement that when Trotsky proposed a nep-like plan, it was too early. But, either way, Trotsky and Lenin where on the samepage. Other members of the party where against it.
If other people don't come in on this, I'll send you links.

Comradely,
mike.

[FSL]

I don't have much time to cover this,because I'm at work right now. But I'm sure other will come in.
Trotsky did support the nep. But he technically didn't propose it. He did advocate a nep-like plan before the nep was passed. But it was Lenin that proposed it.
It was drawn up when it looked like the revolution wasn't spreading. So it was seen as a temp plan.
I've heard a good arguement that when Trotsky proposed a nep-like plan, it was too early. But, either way, Trotsky and Lenin where on the samepage. Other members of the party where against it.
If other people don't come in on this, I'll send you links.

Comradely,
mike.


Support for the NEP was pretty much unanimous when it was proposed. As time passed and conflicts between city and village (or within the peasantry itself) grew, there came the differences.

[Mike Russell]

Support for the NEP was pretty much unanimous when it was proposed. As time passed and conflicts between city and village (or within the peasantry itself) grew, there came the differences.

Maybe so, but I've never read that. To my understanding, there were disputes on howmuch to give in to the country. Lenin wrote how he and trosky where to the right of kollenti(sp?) and others on this issues.

I'll do some research to see if misunderstood though.

[hulk_hogan]

Of course, this was one of the first things i learnt in economics, why such a basic topic?

[Dave B]

Is the following of any interest?


Leon Trotsky

The First Five Years of the Communist International

The New Economic Policy of Soviet Russia and
the Perspectives of the World Revolution

Delivered at the November 14, 1922 Session of
the Fourth World Congress of the Comintern


http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/ffyci-2/20.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/ffyci-2/20.htm)

[RedStarOverChina]

I was in a discussion a while ago, as I mentioned the similarities between Lenin's NEP and Deng's initial steps in market reforms, two Trot friends of mine told me their beloved Trotsky opposed Lenin's NEP.

I was skeptical but didn't check it up afterward.

[Aesop]

No he Didn't.
It was a plan supported by Bukharin, Tomsky and Rykov and of course Stalin in the early part of his struggle for power

[FSL]

No he Didn't.
It was a plan supported by Bukharin, Tomsky and Rykov and of course Stalin in the early part of his struggle for power




Let us, however, return to the Russian question. It is not solely Cunow’s personal opinion that we have great differences of views among us, and that I personally belong to the opposition on the question of concessions and on the question of changing our economic policy. Not only the Social-Democratic press but also the capitalist newspapers harp on this. Every comrade in the least acquainted with our internal affairs is well aware that there are no serious differences among us, in the party, over these questions, except for a very small group whose representative, Kollontai, you heard today.


in http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1924/ffyci-1/ch24.htm

Back to the library you!

[Kléber]

Some sources say Trotsky initially opposed it but he obviously was with the majority on this one.

What do you all think about the second, "Neo-NEP" of 1934-36? Profit incentives and competition were introduced to the industrial economy, then scrapped in favor of strict labor militarization.