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.
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