You are still more wrong in assuming that the
decay of capitalism precludes its growth. Read Lenin’s
Imperialism and you will realize that the decay of capitalism
in certain industries and countries does not preclude
but presupposes the growth of capitalism in other
industries and countries. How could you fail to notice
this “trifle” in Lenin? Criticize, if you please, but do
so from Lenin’s point of view, and from that point of
view alone, if you want your criticism to be productive.


You speak of your “devotion” to me. Perhaps
it was just a chance phrase. Perhaps. . . . But if the
phrase was not accidental I would advise you to discard
the “principle” of devotion to persons. It is not the Bolshevik
way. Be devoted to the working class, its Party,
its state. That is a fine and useful thing. But do not
confuse it with devotion to persons, this vain and useless
bauble of weak-minded intellectuals.

http://www.marx2mao.com/PDFs/StWorks13.pdf

These two quotations just jumped out at me. The first for its pertinence and clarity. It is a direct reply to everyone who speaks of capitalism "rotting" away or "collapsing" in some way. The second is to spit in the face to all the "Stalin was a dictator", "Stalinist cult" crowd. These are not the words of a dictator, but of a working class leader. I wanted to 'bold' the whole paragraph...

From link:

On the basis of these achievements we have the following
to record for the period under review:

a) An increase in the national income from 35,000
million rubles in 1930 to 50,000 million rubles in 1933.
In view of the fact that the income of the capitalist elements,
including concessionaires, at the present time constitutes
less than one half of one per cent of the total national
income, almost the whole of the national income is
distributed among the workers and other employees, the
labouring peasants, the co-operatives, and the state.

b) An increase in the population of the Soviet Union
from 160,500,000 at the end of 1930 to 168,000,000 at
the end of 1933.

c) An increase in the number of workers and other
employees from 14,530,000 in 1930 to 21,883,000 in 1933.
The number of manual workers increased during this period
from 9,489,000 to 13,797,000; the number of workers
employed in large-scale industry, including transport,
increased from 5,079,000 to 6,882,000; the number of
agricultural workers increased from 1,426,000 to
2,519,000, and the number of workers and other employees
engaged in trade increased from 814,000 to 1,497,000.

d) An increase in the total of the wages paid to workers
and other employees from 13,597 million rubles in
1930 to 34,280 million rubles in 1933.


e) An increase in the average annual wages of industrial
workers from 991 rubles in 1930 to 1,519 rubles in
1933.

f) An increase in the social insurance fund for workers
and other employees from 1,810 million rubles in
1930 to 4,610 million rubles in 1933.

g) The adoption of a seven-hour working day in all
surface industries.

h) State aid to the peasants by the organisation of
2,860 machine and tractor stations, involving an investment
of 2,000 million rubles.

i) State aid to the peasants in the form of credits
to the collective farms amounting to 1,600 million rubles.

j) State aid to the peasants in the form of seed and
food loans amounting in the period under review to
262 million pounds of grain.

k) State aid to the economically weaker peasants in
the shape of relief from taxation and insurance payments
amounting to 370 million rubles.

As regards the cultural development of the country,
we have the following to record for the period under
review:

a) The introduction of universal compulsory elementary
education throughout the U.S.S.R., and an
increase in literacy among the population from 67
per cent at the end of 1930 to 90 per cent at the end of
1933.

b) An increase in the number of pupils and students
at schools of all grades from 14,358,000 in 1929 to
26,419,000 in 1933, including an increase from 11,697,000
to 19,163,000 in the number receiving elementary education,
from 2,453,000 to 6,674,000 in the number receiving secondary education, and from 207,000 to 491,000
in the number receiving higher education.

c) An increase in the number of children receiving
pre-school education from 838,000 in 1929 to 5,917,000
in 1933.

d) An increase in the number of higher educational
institutions, general and special, from 91 in 1914 to
600 in 1933.

e) An increase in the number of scientific research
institutes from 400 in 1929 to 840 in 1933.

f) An increase in the number of clubs and similar institutions
from 32,000 in 1929 to 54,000 in 1933.

g) An increase in the number of cinemas, cinema
installations in clubs, and mobile cinemas, from 9,800
in 1929 to 29,200 in 1933.

h) An increase in the circulation of newspapers from
12,500,000 in 1929 to 36,500,000 in 1933.

From link:

On the basis of these achievements we have the following
to record for the period under review:

a) An increase in the national income from 35,000
million rubles in 1930 to 50,000 million rubles in 1933.
In view of the fact that the income of the capitalist elements,
including concessionaires, at the present time constitutes
less than one half of one per cent of the total national
income, almost the whole of the national income is
distributed among the workers and other employees, the
labouring peasants, the co-operatives, and the state.

b) An increase in the population of the Soviet Union
from 160,500,000 at the end of 1930 to 168,000,000 at
the end of 1933.

c) An increase in the number of workers and other
employees from 14,530,000 in 1930 to 21,883,000 in 1933.
The number of manual workers increased during this period
from 9,489,000 to 13,797,000; the number of workers
employed in large-scale industry, including transport,
increased from 5,079,000 to 6,882,000; the number of
agricultural workers increased from 1,426,000 to
2,519,000, and the number of workers and other employees
engaged in trade increased from 814,000 to 1,497,000.

d) An increase in the total of the wages paid to workers
and other employees from 13,597 million rubles in
1930 to 34,280 million rubles in 1933.


e) An increase in the average annual wages of industrial
workers from 991 rubles in 1930 to 1,519 rubles in
1933.

f) An increase in the social insurance fund for workers
and other employees from 1,810 million rubles in
1930 to 4,610 million rubles in 1933.

g) The adoption of a seven-hour working day in all
surface industries.

h) State aid to the peasants by the organisation of
2,860 machine and tractor stations, involving an investment
of 2,000 million rubles.

i) State aid to the peasants in the form of credits
to the collective farms amounting to 1,600 million rubles.

j) State aid to the peasants in the form of seed and
food loans amounting in the period under review to
262 million pounds of grain.

k) State aid to the economically weaker peasants in
the shape of relief from taxation and insurance payments
amounting to 370 million rubles.

As regards the cultural development of the country,
we have the following to record for the period under
review:

a) The introduction of universal compulsory elementary
education throughout the U.S.S.R., and an
increase in literacy among the population from 67
per cent at the end of 1930 to 90 per cent at the end of
1933.

b) An increase in the number of pupils and students
at schools of all grades from 14,358,000 in 1929 to
26,419,000 in 1933, including an increase from 11,697,000
to 19,163,000 in the number receiving elementary education,
from 2,453,000 to 6,674,000 in the number receiving secondary education, and from 207,000 to 491,000
in the number receiving higher education.

c) An increase in the number of children receiving
pre-school education from 838,000 in 1929 to 5,917,000
in 1933.

d) An increase in the number of higher educational
institutions, general and special, from 91 in 1914 to
600 in 1933.

e) An increase in the number of scientific research
institutes from 400 in 1929 to 840 in 1933.

f) An increase in the number of clubs and similar institutions
from 32,000 in 1929 to 54,000 in 1933.

g) An increase in the number of cinemas, cinema
installations in clubs, and mobile cinemas, from 9,800
in 1929 to 29,200 in 1933.

h) An increase in the circulation of newspapers from
12,500,000 in 1929 to 36,500,000 in 1933.

What other state can claim such advances? If people would just look at these achievements, how could they not "see"?