--- Luke Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:
> Justin wrote:
>
> > NK's special because of its isolation and
> commitment
> > to "juchem" probably would have been quite diff
> had
> > the North conquored the penninsula.
>
> OK, Justin: what do you think a united communist
> Korea would look like?
>
> > There never was a communsit movement in Taiwan.
>
> I didn't claim that there actually was. The point
> was that if communist
> revolution (indigenous, or, more likely, exported
> from right next door) had
> successfully taken place in Taiwan, it would look a
> lot like China today.
>
> > China, 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.
>
> I'm not familiar with the social well-being
> indicators pre and post Mao.
> Even if they were a lot better post Mao, why should
> we think they wouldn't
> have risen similarly under Chiang Kai Shek?
>
> -- Luke
>
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