Re: Re: Re: why the ussr crashed

[JKSCHW@xxxxxxx]

Fair enough. My scorecard was glib and misleading. --jks

In a message dated 7/22/00 1:22:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< I don't see how this fits with Justin's earlier sports-type analogy that
 the fall of the USSR represents "Hayek 1, Marx 0." In the narrative below,
 Hayek-type problems don't explain the fall of the USSR but rather its
 systematic inefficiency (a little like capitalism's systematic inefficiency
 in the form of the chronic unemployment needed to motivate people to do
 boring work under alienating and authoritarian conditions). On the other
 hand, Marx's ideas don't apply to the USSR since (1) he didn't write
 recipes on how to organize socialism and was not a fan of technocracy; and
 (2) after the destruction and co-optation of the soviets and other
 democratic organizations, the USSR lacked the basics of Marxian socialism,
 i.e., workers' democracy. >>