--- Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Secondly, the primary Marxist point about capitalism was that, destructive of human life as capitalism had been from its very beginning (the advances for the few from the beginning disguising the greater horror for the many), it _had_ opened up the possibility of _real_ improvement of human life, a possibility that did not exist within agrarian society (as superior as such societies had been for the the vast majority in comparison with capitalism).
Carrol --- Didn't the Bolsheviks at one point deliberately try to immitate aspects of American big capital? (I'm reviewing Yale Rochmond's Cultural Exchange and the Cold War, and he asserts this.) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail