-- Luke
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dawson" <mdawson at pdx.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 3:57 PM Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx
> How about Haiti and Cuba, Luke? Or is that anathema because Chomsky
> mentions it?
>
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> On Behalf Of Luke Weiger
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>
> > And who else has? It's remarkable how little change there's been in
> > the global hierarchy over the last 100 years. The major exceptions
> > are in East Asia. So it's kind of remarkable that the comparison
> > between the USSR and the West is even made. Substitute Brazil or
> > India for the USSR and see how funny it sounds.
> >
> > Doug
>
> Precisely why the best comparisons are between West Germany and the DDR
and
> South Korea and North Korea. Still, it's worth noting that the sample
sizes
> are awfully small here. It doesn't suffice to say that a command economy
> can't work (and by "work" I mean produce Western levels of affluence)
simply
> because one never has.
>
> -- Luke
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