[lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns

[Brad DeLong]

>Ho Chi Minh is different: a Communist-Nationalist leader fighting 
>foreign European colonialists and neocolonialists. But I've never 
>seen anyone seriously argue that Ho was not a convinced Communist--a 
>believer in total state control, collectivized agriculture, and lots 
>of other very bad things.
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>Brad DeLong
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>Only a Berkeley liberal economist would place collectivized 
>agriculture on the same evil level as total state control.

Yes. At Berkeley we have this strange idea that peasant-farmers are 
people, and that what happens to them matters.

Brad DeLong