Re: "Socialist command type economy in Iraq"????

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] "Socialist command type economy in Iraq"????

Maybe Ken was following the common sloppy usage of referring to either a state/command economy or a welfare state as "socialism."

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hari Kumar [mailto:hari.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:12 PM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PEN-L] "Socialist command type economy in Iraq"????
>
>
> Re: free to market and plunder"; by k hanly:
> "A point not often made is that as in Yugoslavia one aim of regime
> change was to remove whatever elements of a socialist economy that
> remained. This was explicit in the agreement that Milosevic refused to
> sign. Now it is clear that any remnants of  socialist command type
> economy in Iraq that might ration goods other than by dollars is to be
> destroyed."
> Comment:
> Come again? Coudl you specify such pelase?
> Thanks,
> Hari
>