By Charles J. Urlacher, American Greatness - We must not count on going straight to communism... You will have capitalists beside you, including foreign capitalists, concessionaires and leaseholders. They will squeeze profits out of you amounting to hundreds per cent; they will enrich themselves, operating alongside of you... Meanwhile you will learn from them the business of running the economy, and only when you do that will you be able to build up a communist republic.
Lenin... says he will use capitalism to achieve a Communist republic. He incorporated capitalism as an evolutionary stage in the development of the Soviet Union.