[Marxism] RE: Naming the System

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Without wishing to sound sycophantic, I just finished reading Michael Yates'
'Naming the System' and thought it was a great piece of work, eminently
readable and throughly commendable. Cheers Michael!

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> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:10:40 -0800
> From: "MICHAEL YATES" <mikedjyates@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Marxism] article by Petras on capitalism versus
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> This is a good piece by Petras.  I will send it to my comrades at Monthly
> Review.  A long time ago, I taught a college course in comparative economic
> systems.  I can't remember the name of this little book I used, but it had
> many statistical comparisons between the socialist and capitalist
> economies.  Over a wide range of standard economic measures, there wasn't a
> whole lot of difference (and there was far greater equality in the
> socialist economies).  Of course, today the whole history has been
> rewritten, more or less, to conform to the views of the anti-communists.
>
> Michael Yates
>
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