On May 9, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> On 5/9/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I confess I find your attachment to Russian
>> authoritarianism disconcerting -- it's less alarming
>> than Yoshie's endorsement of reactionary theocracy in
>> Iran, but neither strike me as socialist attitudes.
>
> No one is saying that Iran or Russia is socialist. It's up to the
> Iranians and the Russians to decide whether they want socialism, and
> it looks like neither people do at present, and in this they are very
> much like many other peoples.
>
> Besides, if authoritarianism is what you really hate, why recommend
> China?
In your haste to compose 15 or 20 posts a day, perhaps you missed this from "andie":
> In contrast, China,
> whose social and economic syste, I also dislike, is
> developing a serious industrial base of its own.