Well, I can't say I don't understand Terry's comments, but, another outcome of chaos in the former ussr is the complete availability of nuclear weapons to anyone with cash and the decline in caring for existing nuclear power, making future chernobyls a probable threat. For instance, last winter the russian utility companies cut off electricity to the russian navy for nonpayment of bills. So? Russian nuclear submarines in the water were unable to maintain constant temperature to their reactors--and it was just luck the hulls didn't crack and send radioactive materials into the oceans. My feelings of self-righteous justification would disappear damn quickly if the oceans of the world die in the name of free market enterprise. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 97-05-14 12:19:49 EDT, Terry McDonough writes: >COMMENT: Surprise, surprise. After many years as a member of the >western left, castigated (unjustly) by Eastern anticommunist >intellectuals as being naive about communism, I take very grim >satisfaction in witnessing the massive injustice unleashed by the >primitive accumulation of capital in the east. Have any of the >Vaclav Havel's of the world confessed to a parallel naivete about the >glories of capitalism? > >Terry McDonough
