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- From: j.turner@lynx.coe.northeastern.edu (Jeffrey Turner)
- Subject: Re: State Socialism (last one, for sure)
- In-Reply-To: cher@ksr.com's message of 28 Dec 92 20:52:30 EST
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:14:14 GMT
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- In article <20472@ksr.com> cher@ksr.com (Mike Cherepov) writes:
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- >We know now that Soviet incomes were never better than third-world
- >level. Historians who argued otherwise should re-examine their
- >methods and selection of sources - they were wrong.
-
- This argument might make some sort of sense IF the economy
- of the world were neatly divisible by country. The big questions
- are: Would the US standard of living be as high as it is if not
- for the impoverishment and exploitation of the "Third World"?
- What has the effect of exclusion from the"capitalist" economy
- been on the quality and quantity of Soviet production? What has
- the effect of a net transfer of wealth from the Soviet Union to
- its "satellites" been, as opposed to the net transfer of wealth
- from the US's Latin American "satellites" to the US? What are the
- relative levels of medical care and literacy in the xUSSR, the
- "third world", and the "third world at home" cities and poor rural
- areas of the US itself?
-
- --Jeff Turner
-