Re: Russia’s Economy
On May 9, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On 5/9/07, andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com wrote:
I confess I find your attachment to Russian authoritarianism disconcerting — it’s less alarming than Yoshie’s endorsement of reactionary theocracy in Iran, but neither strike me as socialist attitudes.
No one is saying that Iran or Russia is socialist. It’s up to the Iranians and the Russians to decide whether they want socialism, and it looks like neither people do at present, and in this they are very much like many other peoples.
Besides, if authoritarianism is what you really hate, why recommend
China?
In your haste to compose 15 or 20 posts a day, perhaps you missed
this from “andie”:
In contrast, China, whose social and economic syste, I also dislike, is developing a serious industrial base of its own.