Stalin did not liquidate the *whole* of the private capitalist class for he allowed small businesses to remain more or less intact. Which was confirmed after he died.
I think you might be confusing Stalin with Lenin.
Gravediggers said:Which is short hand for saying that the objective conditions and the subjective conditions were not present in the USSR.
It was long hand not short hand, but yes.
Gravediggers said:What are these vestiges of capitalism which will be retained in socialism?
According to Marx - bourgeois equal right. That is equality that does not take into account the unequal circumstances and abilities of the people. I would include the retention of democratic rule as being an example of bourgeois equal right.
Gravediggers said:And what are the similarities between state capitalism and socialism?
That depends on what you mean by state capitalism.
Gravediggers said:Blind assertions say nothing.
Indeed.