Re: anarchism

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx> 12/07/99 01:01AM >

*****   The imperial record is, of course, not entirely uniform.  A highly
apologetic Stanford University symposium comparing Soviet and American
dependencies recognizes that while "Latin Americans claim mainly economic
exploitation," "Soviet exploitation of Eastern Europe is principally
political and security-oriented."  One result is that Eastern Europe had a
higher standard of living than the USSR, in part the result of a huge
Soviet subsidy to its satellites, amounting to $80 billion in the decade of
the 1970s, according to U.S. government sources.  "Soviet dominion was in
fact that unique historical perversity, an empire in which the center bled
_itself_ for the sake of its colonies, or rather, for the sake of
tranquility in those colonies," Lawrence Weschler observes.   *****

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Charles: In other words, the Soviet Union was not imperialist.

CB