[lbo-talk] Soviet Monstors (was: Genocide, Holocaust)

[Kelley]

excellent evidence for the failure of soviet socialism as specific to the 
logic of soviet state socialism--internal to it, not the result of external 
pressures or an accident of megalomaniac leadership.

At 05:30 PM 6/6/03 -0400, John Mage wrote:


> From my experience, Doug is on the mark in saying that there was big
>time dissatisfaction among elites at the denial of the privilege
>available to the rich in the West.  The very relative privileges they
>had no way made up for it. There were lots (none among those I knew in
>Vneshbank, however) who were ready to see the starving old and weak
>freeze to death in the streets as long as they themselves came out
>ahead (they call it "democracy"). Criminals. Monsters.
>
>john mage