[lbo-talk] Missing the Marx

[Luke Weiger]

The Cuba/Haiti comparison has already been discussed on this list within the
last 1 1/2 years (I don't think you were around at the time).  In any event,
it's not particularly compelling because Cuba was already much better off
(according to indicators such as life expectancy and literacy) than Haiti
before Castro came to power.

-- Luke

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Dawson" <mdawson at pdx.edu>
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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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