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SNV Special Interview: Liberating The Productive Forces by Pat Byrne

Special Interview Recorded (8/25/2026) and Uploaded Here (8/27/2026)

NOTE - You can watch a video of this interview on the YouTube of Urban Cabin Studios here: https://youtu.be/EKVVU2OyaOg?si=EGCSd0gh7g_ecQds )

In this special we speak with Pat Byrne who says in his new book Liberating the Productive Forces "Most socialists have not properly studied Lenin's News Economic Policy and how it worked in Russia. Instead they have been supplied with a few brief quotations that have satisfied the factional disputes." The book is Volume 1 in a series titled Understanding the China Puzzle. Byrne also…

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