Pinter on NATO "bandits"

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 07:34 PM 5/3/99 -0700, Brad DeLong wrote, inter alia:
>a "bourgeosie"--that that view was wrong. Better to have (as in Poland)
>concentrated on bringing rational calculation to the state sector,
>privatizing small-scale agriculture, eliminating inflation, and putting
>together an efficient tax-collection system.

A point of clarification - Polish agriculture has been mostly (about 80%)
private under central planning.  Land reform (or rather redistribution to
small-holders) was the key referendum issue on which the "communists" won
in 1947.

Wojtek