On 12/18/15 3:48 PM, Joseph Green wrote: > The quote shows that both the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were in deep > economic trouble, and that their plans to get out of it didn't work. But this > doesn't refute that the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe was imperialist; > it only shows that it was an ailing imperialism.
Well, it is a strange imperialism in which the colony is subsidized by the colonizer. But then again, whatever the USSR's many faults, profit-seeking was not one of them. Read Alec Nove's "The Economics of Feasible Socialism" for more on this. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
