Focus on food, education, health, & housing first. When that is dealt with, proceed at a very deliberate pace, with ample time for review and evaluation, with an ecologically responsible industrialization policy. Prepare to be invaded for terrorizing the capitalists.
Joanna
Doug Henwood wrote:
I'm curious what PEN-Lers think a socialist or other variety of "progressive" government should do in a mostly poor, rural, peasant society. Promote education and industrialization? Wouldn't that undermine the economic and social bases of existing life? Try to restrain the forces of capitalist and/or technological development in an effort to preserve existing arrangements?
Doug
