RES: [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran

[Alexandre Fenelon]

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nome de Luke Benjamin Weiger
Enviada em: terça-feira, 1 de julho de 2003 14:47
Para: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Assunto: RE: [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran


On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Chris Doss wrote:

> Well, that opinion is rather widespread in Russia. You can make a
perfectly
> rational cost-benefit analysis and argue that Stalin was good for the
> country (note that you cannot do so with Hitler).

Only because the Germans lost the war.  There are plenty of plausible
alternate histories in which Nazi Germany fights a less ambitious version
of WWII and wins.

-- Luke

-Nazism is, unlike communism, an inherently agressive doctrine. It was not
-by coincidence that Hitler lost the war. He started it. And he started it
-because the very program of economic recovery he followed only made sense
-if he had the intention of going to war, otherwise, he would have led
-Germany to bankrupcy. When you start agression wars you take much more
risks
-than those who don´t. On the other hand, Stalin´s industriaization program
-not only achieved significant improvements in USSR living standards, but
-also didn´t relied on war to kepp economic gains, quite the opposite,
-USSR could have won a lot in a "no war scenario".
-On living standards improvement from 1928-40, look at:

http://www.arts.ubc.ca/econ/dp9718.pdf
						Alexandre Fenelon
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