Re: Re: Harry Magdoff on market socialism

[Doug Henwood]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

>It seems to me that even the socialism of the Soviet Union (which we 
>all agree wasn't neither as democratic nor as efficient as it could 
>have been) put food on people's tables better than capitalism.

Why the forced binary, as the pollsters say? I thought the point was 
to create societies more humane than either the U.S. or the USSR. 
Absolutely no one is holding up FSU as a model for anything except 
social disaster.

Doug