A socialist regime produced luxury goods for capitalists while undermining them.

Evidence

So we have the surprising situation of a socialist revolutionary regime making luxury goods to sell to the capitalist world. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1467

Categorization

• XREF: This reflects the broader economic strategies of states transitioning from imperialism to communism. — connects to: Arab socialism operated as state capitalism with authoritarian repression — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 326
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 1467