--- 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.
>