Louis Proyect wrote: >You'll notice that (D) & (E) are practically the same for each country. So >can you draw any meaningful inferences about whether the same level of >exploitation exists for both countries? Obviously not. Bottom line, we have >to avoid the temptation to do economic analysis based on such a >reductionist view. There is no substitute for the concrete analysis of >concrete class relations.
In other words, if the contemporary statistics don't say what you want them to, turn to Lenin instead. Doug
