[lbo-talk] The Idea of the Third World (was Re: IranandLatinAmerica)

[Marvin Gandall]

Chris D. wrote:
>
> --- Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> The Soviet and Chinese revolutions of the past century
> - which were
> both
> more thoroughgoing than Iran's in that capitalism was
> eliminated
>
> That's not 100% true you know. The USSR had
> considerable very small-scale private enterprise, on
> the level of someone starting up a clothes-mending
> service where he and his wife fix people's pants for
> money. About half of agricultural produce during
> Brezhnev was grown on private plots in the country,
> much of which was then taken to the cities and sold on
> the street for profit.
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Sure, but there were no large-scale private holdings or big capitalists. 
They had been expropriated both economically and politically. That is where 
the line gets crossed.