This is the general method by which capitalism beat out socialism in the economic contest: imposing on socialism the biggest wars in the history of humanity, such as the Nazi capitalists war on the Soviet Union.
One thing the 20th Century was not was an objective and fair test of the competition between socialist and capitalist ECONOMICS, and it was solely because capitalism is the most vicious, inhuman and mass murdering system ever, based on its warmaking alone.
Ho, Ho, Ho Che Minh !
CB
>>> Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> 03/29/00 02:30PM >>>
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Brad De Long wrote:
> >On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Brad De Long wrote:
> >
> >> >Maybe they recruited you as a sleeper while you were working on Wall
> >> >St., kind of like the Viet-Cong did with McCain. ;)
> >>
> >> You've got it wrong. The Viet-Cong didn't recruit McCain.
> >> McCain--acting as an agent for the founders-to-be of Nike--recruited
> >> the Viet-Cong.
> >>
> >> Where else in the world today, after all, can they find such a
> >> compliant and productive workforce with such effective gang-bosses?
> >>
> >>
> >> Brad DeLong
> >Indonesia perhaps?
>
> Real wages perhaps four times those of Vietnam today...
>
>
> Brad DeLong
>
Gosh Brad, I expect better than that from you. I mean, Indonesia, the
country that has received so much in the way of US aid, WB loans,...and
been relatively free of war for how many years now? I should hope its
average wage was a bit highr than Vietnam's.
I would add that when I traveled in Indonesia about 9 years ago, especially in parts of SUmatra, the poverty there I encountered reminded me of what I saw in Vietnam, and Vietnam was by far the poorest country I'd traveled through. I couldn't say that about Malaysia, Thailand, or China, where I also travelled.
Steve