On Sep 10, 2010, at 8:21 PM, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 10, 2010, at 7:49 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Stalinist central planning, political repression = socialism? Socialism
>> isn't an alternative path of development either.
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> There was a phenomenon in the 20th century where states engaged in central planning and all that stuff, and it was an alternative development path, and that's what people designate by "socialism" in this context.
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> You're way too smart to fall into these familiar terminological disputes!
Upon rereading the context: I'm dumb; please ignore this.
I will say that conceiving of the metropole as "advanced capitalism" underestimates the integration of the global economy. Beverley Hills is not further along in history than Watts.
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>> On Sep 10, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote:
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>>>> Somebody: What always troubles me is that we had always assumed that
>>>> socialism would work best in developed countries. Yet as the Soviet Union
>>>> completed it's phase of industrialization it seemed to work less well.
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