>Face it -- socialism in one country can make relations within it more
>egalitarian (Cuba isn't totally classless, but it's more egalitarian
>than all other Latin and Caribbean nations and most other nations in
>the world), but it CANNOT make the country richer than it is.
>International economic inequality, a product of centuries of history
>of capitalism, remains, with or without socialism in Mexico.
>
That's not a very attractive advertisement for socialism. Capitalist South Korea and Taiwan were able to make themselves richer. If you're saying that socialism can't, then why be a socialist in the Third World?
Seth