[lbo-talk] Pointless polls

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Jim
> is this that different from the US, where we see the "USA Patriot
> Act," the "Clean Skies Initiative," the "No Child Left Behind Act,"
> etc.? PR lies seem universal, both under bureaucratic socialism and
> capitalism.

Au contraire.  This is evidence of the "convergence theory" once popular in
the 1970s claiming that both the US and the Soviet systems are heading
toward a "compromise" system that will be a mixture of features found in
both systems.  

However, the theory did not specify which  features.  It turns out that the
negative ones - market absolutism and totalitarianism were mutually adopted,
but the positive ones - economic planning and democratic governance were
discarded in the process.

Wojtek