Robert Heilbroner On Entrepreneurs

Here is what Robert Heilbroner says about Soviet socialism in his book The Making of Economic Society:

“The economic system was, in fact, soon heavily dependent on so called tolkachi-wheelers and dealers who arranged for shipments to be rerouted, shortages to be filled, and excess inventories to be disposed of, either behind the authorities’ backs or with their tacit permission.”

Sounds like middlemen if not entrepreneurs