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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Aug 27 12:42:44 PDT 2005


Cseniornyc at aol.com wrote:


>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.

Well, yeah. But this is an e-list posting on a Saturday afternoon, not a book or even a 2000-word article.


> 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"

I agree with that, of course

Doug



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