>
> I am not an economist. Stalin's methods produced
> some results in
> 30s, but I am not sure the same methods would
> necessarily work at a
> different stage of economic development or in a
> different social milieu.
>
> Ulhas
>
I'm not an economist either. My point was that
democratic government and economic development do not
necessarily go together. Japan developed under the
Emperors and then under a quasi-authoritarian
effectively one-party state (I think), the USSR under
Revolution from Above, Spain under Franco, South Korea
under a military dictatorship, Indonesia under
Suharto, China under a one-party state. Russia is
booming right now under conditions of "managed
democracy." "'Liberal democracy" seems to require a
strong middle class, for one thing, which none of
these countries had/have.
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