[lbo-talk] RE: Activism/Socialism in U.S

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 10 07:35:36 PST 2004


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 13:08:30 +0300, Chris Doss <nomorebounces at mail.ru> wrote:

People working in TV manufacturing plants could not
> get fired no matter how badly they did (I may be exaggerating slightly,
> but not by much).

Soviet joke, "We pretend to work. You pretend to pay us."

On Soviet agriculture, one more cite, http://www.shevchenko.org/famine/73_81.htm , "Soviet Peasants: Or, the Peasants' Art of Starving." Armando Pitassio and Victor Zaslavsky, ed. Translated by Jean Alexander and Alexander Zaslavsky. New York: Telos Press, 1985. x + 156pp. ISBN: 0-914386-12-3.

Zaslavsky wrote, "The Neo-Stalinist State: Class, Ethnicity, and Consensus in Soviet Society."

-- Michael Pugliese



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