> Surely the argument of Soviet-US equivalence is blown out of the water
> now. Leftists find it difficult to face up to the truth of the matter -
> the Soviet economy was even less efficient that capitalism, where there
> was at least an unconscious regulator in the market. The Soviet Union
> lacked any meachanism for the distribution of labour in society, leading
> to grotesque shortages, fragmentation of the national economy,
> astonishing levels of waste. The picture of the totalitarian society
> owes more to the fears of Hannah Arendt that it does to what was really
> happening in the USSR, which was about as monolithic as the Ottoman
> Empire.
>
James, are you going to try and substantiate these wild assertions, or
just leave them to crawl off into the night by themselves?
-- Mark Jones http://www.geocities.com/~comparty