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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economic revolutions

En relación a [PEN-L:2764] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economic revolut,
el 7 Oct 00, a las 9:01, Louis Proyect dijo:

> Dennis:
> >Whence this fetishism of Eastern European state-party father-figures?
> >Per capita GDP in Poland, Slovenia and the Czech Republic is higher
> >now than in 1989, and many of these economies are growing pretty
> >fast.
>
> Inequality is higher now as well. Socialists are not interested in
> economic growth for the same of economic growth. We are interested in
> social justice.

Moreover, even from a strictly _bourgeois_ point of view, not _any
form of economic growth_ is acceptable. Economic growth that brings
the country (this means, the ruling classes, whoever they are) to
lose control of its own path is not, in the long term, growth at all.

Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
gorojovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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