S11 Imperialism

Hakki Alacakaptan nucleus at superonline.com
Fri Nov 9 09:43:28 PST 2001


|| -----Original Message-----

|| From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

|| [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood

|| Chris Doss wrote:

||

|| >Just a small comment on this bit by Hakki:

|| >

|| >Any non-Russian citizen of former Comecon countries or former Soviet

|| >republics will agree that the USSR was imperialist, and will

|| probably spit

|| >or swear when doing so :)

|| >

|| >This is true as far as the Baltics go, but a lot of people in the

|| >non-Russian CIS rue the day the USSR fell.

||

|| Wasn't the flow of resources in the old USSR just the opposite what

|| you'd expect from an imperialist power? Didn't Russia subsidize the

|| Central Asian republics? And as for what we used to call the captive

|| nations of Eastern Europe - most had incomes higher than the Russian

|| average, right? Also not capitalist-style imperialism.

||

|| Doug

Is that economism I smell there Doug? You of all people :)

Hakki



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