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To: Neocon who wrote (323069)	11/25/2002 1:55:57 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "No one balked when Lenin used limited marketization in the New Economic Program." >>> Actually, some surely did, and the purges indicate it :) >>> So we come down now to a question of degrees. Is their shift to market economics (retaining authoritarianism) enough to say that Socialism (plus authoritarianism) is heading toward extinction in China... or is is merely a temporary 'tactical' shift, as you maintain? >>> Time will tell, but from the bleacher seats it sure looks to me more like they are moving for a permanent shift to a market economy (both by words AND actions), and whatever remains of the public expousal of 'Marxist' rhetoric seems just to be a tired veneer, a half-hearted rationalization to cover the objective fact that they are actually just as close now to Fascism, as they are to Marxism. >>> For Stalinism: go look to North Korea.