Brad, without granting your thesis about the relative merits of the two regimes, I know that the KMT had to be pushed into land reform when then were on the mainland and about to lose. I suspect that competititon with Mainland China made them act better, just as the Soviets made the U.S. behave better. Brad De Long wrote: > >It would be odd if we did not recognise one of the most important events > >of the history of the 20th century, which has influenced the pattern of > >world politics ever since. > > > >The Chinese revolution was a major blow against imperialism in what had > >been a semi-colonial semi-feudal country. > > I don't know. The Kuomintang was a strongly nationalist and > anti-imperialist party too. > > It certainly has done a better job governing Taiwan--which is > nobody's colony or neo-colony these days--than the CCP has done > governing China... > > Brad DeLong -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
