[lbo-talk] Cuba's painful transition from sugar economy

[Cseniornyc at aol.com]

Doug Henwood writes: "I  do think, however, that 
there's a lot  that's valuable in the technology and organization that 
capitalist society  has achieved. "
Yes, indeed and economic history backs it up, in general. But the way you  
express it id too broad and exclusionary proposition to test. Non- capitalist  
i.e. non laissez faire economies, such as Japan Meiji's  and certainly,  
(otherwise show proof to the contrary) the planned economies of the SU and China  
have achieved "a lot that is valuable in tachnology and organization"
Most of the advances in technology are achieved by zealous, furiously  
dedicated scientists and technicians stubbornly bent in solving a problem  without 
considerations of financial reward, mostly working in the obscurity of  
academics or even in monasteries as in the case of genetics.No capitalist was  around 
when the first genes were discovered or the first bacteria was detected  and 
vaccines were created.
Cristobal Senior
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