The question is why the Soviet defense related R & D did not become any important source of technology for civilian application, as it does in the US.
-This is not completely true (althought it´s probably true for the 80´s). Quoting Segrillo again, the highers levels of quality demanded by the military factories led to an overall improvement in machine tools and metallurgy in the USSR as a whole from 30´s to 70´s. And there was a lot of improvement in civil aviation. The USSR had some of the most advanced civilian aircraft in the 50´s and 60´s, which were actually modified bombers (Tu-104 and Tu-114). However, as the IT technology became more important, the government deliberately avoided the spread of sensitive technologies to the civilian economy, as it could it the political system.
I can see now why the issue of agriculture in the WTO negotiations is important to Brazil.
-A typical case of political blindness....
The CPIM's official programme bears little relationship to Indian as well as global realities and also to its own activity. It believes in two stage schema, the people's democratic revolution and the socialist one. The former stage is what defines the tasks (anti-feudal and anti-imperialist) of the party now.
-To what extent you still have feudal remnants in India? The relatisnship with imperialism is somewhat more complex, and I really don´t know how to deal with it in a country like India (the question of imperialism is still relevant in my country, where the economy suffered a massive denationali zation in the last 10 years and where the USA still have considerable influence over domestic policies)
Alexandre
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