[lbo-talk] Reactionary Platitudes (Was Re: Marx, Brenner, Technology )

[Devine, James]

JKS writes: > China [under Mao]
hwoever, is huge, an absolutely gigantic plus --
despite the Great Leap Forward and the inanities of
the CR, the improvement in life for ordinary Chinese
even under Mao was incalculable.<

further, Taiwan succeeded (to the extent that it did) partly because the loss to Mao indicated to
the ruling KMT party that it had to clean up its act. On top of that they weren't allies of the 
Taiwanese landlords the way they had been with the mainland landlords. (There were also 
benefits because Japan -- the occupier during WW2 -- had wanted Taiwan as a breadbasket.)

Jim D.