Z, excellent essay. i'm back, I've been sitting dormant in this club for a while.<br><br>I agree with you that humans are an anomaly in nature and we...
umans are just as much part of nature as any other species. If we overpopulate, then disease and famine take hold to reduce the population. When there is an...
he problem with the soviet union was the lack of democracy not the centralisation. the centralisation enabled russia to make the tremendous economic advances ...
ctually just to make my last message clearer:<br><br>democracy and the planned economy go hand in hand. only socialism can deliver democracy and only democracy...
know Russia made great advances. But how many of their advances came at the cost of safety and health. For instance they found that the large concrete domes...
ndustrial output rose by 52 times. (USA 6 times, UK 2 times!!)<br><br>ok they were rising from a low base, but what was it that enabled them to grow so...
uch of Stalin's industrial machine was built by Americans and Europeans who were hired on contract because there were no qualified Russian workers to do the...
t is true that in the early years of the USSR foreign specialists were hired. but it takes more than a few specialists to build an industrialised country!! did...
ou have just touched on a point which I am eager to discuss, namely the 'investment' factor and how so many of the western economies are desperate to attract...
agree with you. But are you suggesting that safety and health were sacrificed in the USSR that much more than in the histoy of the US or anywhere else? ...
ou absolutely wrong. Much of Stalin's industrial machine was not built by Americans and Europeans. There were no qualified Russian workers to do the work? This...
eb>>I agree with you. But are you suggesting that safety and health were sacrificed in the USSR that much more than in the histoy of the US or anywhere...
concur with comrade Crimw, the things that are produced in the west are safer than any eastern bloc counterparts that were once produced. This is probably...
he quality of goods in the USSR seems to be one of the bourgeoisie's main arguments against the planned economy.<br><br>it is true lots of goods were shoddy,...
t isn't just a boureoisie argument. You can't effectively "plan" a nation-wide economy. For a government to plan an economy, it has to have control. If the ...
know this is a little off the subject but the issue of a socialist political strategy constantly preoccupies me, and would be grateful for input from all ...
he people who will be hurt will be the people in the Thrid World. They are the ones who have populations more than they can support. Thee industrialized world...
dislike you're reference to 'Europeans', if there is one country on earth (other than the former USSR) that has 'meddled' in the affairs of other countries it...
n Africa and Asia, European influence was stronger. European Missionaries did most of the work in Africa and Asia, whereas the US Missionaries did most of ...
ear dear crimw,<br><br>I sometimes wonder if you were dropped on your head as a child. <br>First, humanatarian work done by large organizations are not ...
gt;regarding Japan, i believe it touched 15% yearly growth sometime in the 80s (look at it now...) but the USSR had growth rates twice this in the 30s. and no...
gt;how can a high-tech economy work without centralisation? we have centralisation at the moment under capitalism - most of the world's capital is controlled...
am not talking about current efforts. I am talking about past ones. The introduction of new crops allowed the population to expand beyond what the local crops...
y apologies for the delay in responding to your post on socialist politcal strategy.<br>I my opinion, I believe that we all need to come together as one strong...
he left has always been too fragmented to be an effective political force in the US. in our country the political sphere is way too limited, we have no choice ...
unified force would be better. There is safety, and influence, in numbers. My observations, and they may be wrong, are that the left tends to be more ...
