Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 19:47:38 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us> Subject: Re: M-I: Actually Existing Stalinism On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 UticaRose-AT-aol.com wrote: > > was there ever any actually existing socialist state which did not have > chronic food shortages ? Sure. Prewar Yugoslavia. Hungary. East Germany. Poland, Czechoslovakia. I;m talking after the post WWII recovery. After the manmade famine of the Great Leap Forward, China pretty much wiped out the persustent famines of prerevolutionary times. These have retrurned with market reforms in Southern China. I'm no defender of Stalinism. But facts are what they are: chronic food shortages were not a necessary part of "developed socialism." In fact even in the USSR, although there were chronic shortages of aprticular items and overstocks of others, the planning system was moderately efficient at delivering a reasonblely abalanced and nutricious diet to Soviet citizens until Gorby took it apart in 1988-89. --Justin --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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