[lbo-talk] The Iraq Policy of the U.S. Ruling Class

[Jim Straub]

Hm.  Would you say more?   I am very interested in this development of
china's very competent industrialization as stacked against the rest of the
developing world's experience these past few decades.  But as I know nothing
previously about the topic, and come at it without having been on any side
of the various maoism/china debates of the past generation of the left, I
find myself without even the most rudimentary assessmnt of china and, I
guess, vietnam.


> Not at all, Vietnam won the peace as well as the war. It built one of the
> world's canniest developmental states, invested heavily in infrastructure
> and education, and has had one of the world's fastest-growing economies
> for the past two decades.
>
> I'd also point out that the US defeat in Vietnam created the key
> geopolitical window of opportunity for China's long boom: after the US
> left, there was no reason to continue Mao's costly and wasteful Third Line
> policy of constructing military industries in Western China -- Deng
> Xiaoping scrapped the Third Line and launched rural reforms, and the rest
> is, as they say, history.
>
>
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