--- Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CB: Are you saying that the Soviet people knew they were really just trying to catch up with the West again ,and just used the Communist terminology to cover it up or that they didn't realize what they were really, "pragmatically" doing ( simply trying to catch up with the West) ? Basically the best argument against what you are saying is what the Soviet people said.
--- Oh, I think it was both. You had some people who believed the ideology and tried to implement it, some people who believed the ideology but tried to implement something else and lied to themselves about, and other people who just cynically used the ideology. I think I have a good description of the USSR: socialism with tsarist characteristics. Or tsarism with socialist characteristics. :) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
