Louis Proyect wrote: South Korea, as Marty Hart-Landsburg points out, was the beneficiary of Western imperialist > largesse. Soviet Russia was subjected to 70 years of war, blockade and > subversion. I suppose the only analogy with a fish bowl is if you imagine > somebody urinating into one. Naturally the fish will die. That is what > happened to the Soviet Union. South Korea had several other advantages. Japanese imperialism did create a decent educational system. In addition, to fight against communism, the U.S. imposed Wolf Ladejinsky's idea that land reform would create a large class of people with a loyalty to private property. Finally, the country is ethnically homogeneous and had a relatively equal distribution of income. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
