Clearly it was only adopted by a socialist country facing capitalist encirclement in order to better facilitate international trade, which was necessary to build up Soviet productive forces.
Or, hear me out now, a scale that fluctuates between base 10 and base 12 is a pain in the arse to work with when you're working on large scale engineering projects.
Okay, so what neoliberal was responsible for the USSR's adoption of metric?
Clearly it was only adopted by a socialist country facing capitalist encirclement in order to better facilitate international trade, which was necessary to build up Soviet productive forces.
Or, hear me out now, a scale that fluctuates between base 10 and base 12 is a pain in the arse to work with when you're working on large scale engineering projects.
So you agree that it makes far more sense for insulated pencil pushers than it does for proletarian workers?