Re: Rethinking Marxism

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 09/14/00 01:59AM >>>
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx wrote:

> Really? Where is the evidence for the miracle of Asian capitalism,
> Dennis?

Fifty years of the highest per capita growth rates on the planet, and net
creditor status vis-a-vis the USA.

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CB: Would this be East Asian capitalism ?

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> What I am disputing is
> the overall economic performance of Asian economies, the well being of
> ordinary Asian people (not capitalists) and the living standards of the
> population.

They've done well by the boom. Life expectancy in Hong Kong and Japan is
higher than the US, income distribution in the core is surprisingly
egalitarian, and living standards everywhere have gone through the
roof. And everyone has enough to eat in China, for the first time in that
nation's history....clip-

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CB: Didn't the Chinese Revolution wipe out hunger before the market reforms ?