Re: Re: Re: why the ussr crashed

[JKSCHW@xxxxxxx]

I don't know ehnough about China to say. I was a sort of Sovietologist, but
modern China is something of which my knowledge is superficial. It does seem,
from that limired perspective, that the Chinese are being slow and careful in
replacing planning with (apparently full-fledged capitalist) markets. --jks

In a message dated 7/22/00 3:19:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<<  My own belief is that whichever was true, had the planning system been
 > left in place and not dismantled, the USSR would still exist and would
 > continue to limp along into the foreseeable future. I do not think
 > that the crisis, however bad it was, that lead to the introduction of
 > perestroika, was terminal. It was the "cure" that was fatal.
 >

 Would you predicate for China, then that insofar as the planning
 system is not dismantled, they will not suffer the fate of Russia?  >>