The overthrow of the power of the bourgeoisie and the establishment of a proletarian government in one country does not yet guarantee the complete victory of socialism. The main task of socialism, the organisation of socialist production, still lies ahead. Can this task be accomplished, can the victory of socialism in one country be attained, without the joint effort of the proletariat of several advanced countries? No, this is impossible... For the final victory of socialism, for the organization of socialist production, the efforts of one country, particularly of such a peasant country as Russia are insufficient.
Stalin, Foundations of Leninism
Stalin acknowledges here in 1924 that "socialism in one country" and the establishment of a socialist mode of production, is impossible for Russia. Later he revised that claim for propaganda purposes, but even he gets the point that the USSR can't accomplish socialism on its own, especially without another revolution in Europe.
He revised it and admitted he was wrong on that account
The main task of socialism, the organisation of socialist production, still lies ahead.
Stalin was correct. It wasn't constructed until early 1930s as I said previously
Later he revised that claim for propaganda purposes, but even he gets the point that the USSR can’t accomplish socialism on its own, especially without another revolution in Europe.
Even Trotsky agreed Socialism had been established in the 1930s. Here he is:
Socialism has demonstrated its right to victory, not on the pages of Das Kapital, but in an industrial arena comprising a sixth part of the earths surface – not in the language of dialectics, but in the language of steel, cement and electricity. Even if the Soviet Union, as a result of internal difficulties, external blows and the mistakes of leadership, were to collapse – which we firmly hope will not happen – there would remain an earnest of the future this indestructible fact, that thanks solely to a proletarian revolution a backward country has achieved in less than 10 years successes unexampled in history.
This also ends the quarrel with the reformists in the workers movement. Can we compare for one moment their mouselike fussing with the titanic work accomplished by this people aroused to a new life by revolution?
Stalin acknowledges here in 1924 that "socialism in one country" and the establishment of a socialist mode of production, is impossible for Russia. Later he revised that claim for propaganda purposes, but even he gets the point that the USSR can't accomplish socialism on its own, especially without another revolution in Europe.
He revised it and admitted he was wrong on that account
Stalin was correct. It wasn't constructed until early 1930s as I said previously
Even Trotsky agreed Socialism had been established in the 1930s. Here he is:
-Trotsky, Revolution Betrayed