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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (323063)11/25/2002 1:33:28 PM
From: DavesM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
re:"What are you saying, that China would embrace market economies to develop economically... then suddenly destroy all their gains by collectivizing everything just to maintain some sort of mythical ideological purity?"
"And this *after* the great 'learning experience' called The Great Leap Forward?"
"I find that hard to believe."

Yes they could. Didn't the "Cultural Revolution" follow the "Great Leap Forward"?



To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (323063)11/25/2002 1:34:15 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Well, I said I thought this would be a fruitless discussion. No one balked when Lenin used limited marketization in the New Economic Program, to increase economic growth. It is not an inherent absurdity for the Party to take a new tack........