<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> Brad De Long said apropos of why capitalism installed by 'the state' has failed in Russia <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>that it was a naive application of primitive and vulgar Marxism to imagine that by using the state to transform property relations you could totally transform the society</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> Ah, the scales have fallen from my eyes: it wasn't the IMF, the CIA, the State Department, Harvard, Carnegie, Anders Aslund and other assholes, and it wasn't Dyachenko, Yeltsin or Berezovsky: it was *MARXISM* after all that was to blame for the total criminal fuckup of Russia which restored capitalism has brought...     Mark PS My eyes are watering, did you really also say this??? <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>The image held by Krugman, Shleifer, Vishny, Boycko, and a host of others (including me) of a *bourgeoisie*--of what happens when you depoliticize the economy, and create a class of people who profit from market exchange and economic growth--is a very old one. It is a vision that believes that if you put the bourgeoisie in command and marvelous things happen. [sic]</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE>  </HTML>