Re: Satan, Your kingdom Must Come Down
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:58:19 -0500 (EST)
Nah, actually I agree with the idea that Russia was better off under
communism than now. That has more to do with the sloppy transition from
a completely guided market to a free market than with the nature of
either system in itself.
If you remember I said in my earlier post that the economic systems we
espouse have to meet the need, but of course I saw a free market as the
ideal. I think Russia really needed a guided market for some time with a
gradual transition to free market capitalism.
The question you need to ask yourself is, "Why did they abandon communism
to begin with?"
And you also need to read Solzhenitsyn.
Jim
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:03:25 +1100 Camille Scaysbrook
<verona_beach@geocities.com> writes:
>Jim - I recommend you towards an Australian book called `First Abolish
>the
>Customer: 202 Arguments Against Economic Rationalism', by Bob Ellis.
>Russia
>was far better off under communism than it is now. Not perfect by any
>means
>- but definitely better.
>
>Any way I promised myself I wouldn't enter into this debate again ...
>but
>to me there's nothing more anal than a big old ugly prejudiced right
>winger, so lefties like us have perfect rights to be anal-retentive
>about
>it as we like (:
>
>P.S. Why does everyone tend to believe that a person from the Left
>doesn't
>know the other side of things? Any good debater knows you have to
>prepare
>defenses for both sides of the argument. Why should anyone assume we
>do any
>less?
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
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