Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:39:11 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: re: The relative decline of material living standards


Harald:
>When even such a a basic thing as soap
>dependended on the USSR, this says a lot, to put it mildly. 

What it says is that Cuba had to rely on the USSR for many consumer goods.
In all of the posts that I have been reading here, there has been no
suggestion of an alternative course. Surely, Cuba was better off trading
sugar for cars, tractors, clothing, soap, etc. rather than launching its
own consumer goods industrial sector, right? To build such factories, you
need steel, right? And machinery, right? I can't imagine that you would
argue anything so patently ridiculous, right? Well, who knows...




Louis Proyect
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