[lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 12 14:21:08 PDT 2008


I think it makes more sense to view the Stalin period as being characterized by a industrial modernization project using socialism as a legitimating ideology rather than as an attempt to build socialism.

--- On Sun, 10/12/08, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> I do not think this was because Stalin and Mao were
> monsters, your words not mine, although they were. I think
> it is probably and most deeply because Marx's original
> idea that you cannot build socialism in one country and a
> backward one that that was correct, and also (you will
> disagree but this is what I think) we have failured to
> anticipate the limits of planning that Hayek outlined. Both
> of these are structural factors. For the present it
> doesn't matter whether they are right either for my
> purposes or for yours.
>



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