Should we celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union

[Marta Russell]

michael perelman wrote:
> 
> We should mourn the end of the USSR, if for no other reason than it allowed
> the US to drop any humanitarian pretenses.  Now it is free to smash unions and
> dictate terms to small countries without any need to maintain a humanitarian
> facade.
> 
> --

Yes, I think the Soviet Union and East Germany served as some kind of
countervailing force against the grossest outcomes of capitalism. Having
an existing alternative socialist economy seems to have mitigated or
kept things somewhat in check - but the cat sure is out of the bag now. 

Three strikes and I'm out for today!

Marta Russell