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It is very tempting to reduce Soviet economic decisions and structures to pragmatic factors and to discount the influence of ideology. Without overemphasizing the influence of the latter, it seems clear that what happens in the Soviet economy is influenced by Marxism-Leninism, even though there is no question of making concrete predictions.
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McNally, P. Marxist ideology and the Soviet economy. Studies in Soviet Thought 12, 255–269 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01043518
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01043518