Re: [Marxism] What the Empire Learned from the Lesson of Iran

["Yoshie Furuhashi" <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/12/06, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yoshie wrote:
>
> >****  Compare Iran and Venezuela:
> >
> >Iran: "The World Bank reports that the government consumed 14 percent
> >of GDP in 2003. In the same year, according to the International
> >Monetary Fund's Government Financial Statistics CD­ROM, Iran received
> >53.83 percent of its total revenues from state-owned enterprises and
> >government ownership of property.
>
> Actually, state ownership prevails throughout much of the Middle East,
> including Saudi Arabia. You really need to conduct a more class-based
> analysis in order to make judgements as to the "progressive" character of a
> state.

Strange, capitalists don't agree with you:
<http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/country.cfm?id=SaudiArabia>.
:->  Saudi Arabia is ranked 62nd in the "Index of Economic Freedom -
2006," compared to Iran (156th)  and Venezuela (152nd).

--
Yoshie
<http://montages.blogspot.com/>
<http://mrzine.org>
<http://monthlyreview.org/>

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