So, the soviets were not necessarily exploiting their "satellites".
The rest is sophisticated and meaningless as I've seen from many
other contributors... psycho/techno/econ/babble?
Eva
> Sciencefictionally written qouted posting -- in its both parts...:-)))
> The flashes of facts do not have appropriate interpretation in Arbatov's
> case. He, as it seems to me, excludes from the game the hypnoidal
> factor,
> in accordance with which the west and Russian "partners" play using
> different theoretical cards, when pondering about some economical goals.
>
> Majority of the former soviets (I mind people, not administration)
> transferred to new epoch many if not all
> of their previous views and mental habits. The most noxious of them is
> rather than somewhat else the habit to hope for automatically achievable
> common well-being. Russia has may be the most idle laws in the
> world.They don't have in too much occasions any desirable support.
> They does not work. Even their content is often assuming, or
> as-if-assuming, confutation of their actual sense, when for instance in
> their
> beginning they "provide" the development of single-farmstead but in
> their end allows
> to local administration openly and "in accordance with the given laws"
> to
> hinder every normal progress...
> Thusly -- if to continue pondering the way like this -- is very likely
> that deteriorating of all kind have, rather than "outer", very deep
> subconscious
> roots. The economists don't want to look at humans 'in full'... :)
>
> By the way, under-information chooses the most secret paths. One of the
> most important, if not the main, is an undervaluation of the notions
> connotation. The chinese well-being is very different from the american,
> or argentinean. The today's economist, if he wants to become adequate to
> his time, e.i. to our informational age (and it will be soon, I am sure,
> super-informational and this is the special interesting point...), is
> obliged to harmonize, for instance, the processes-of-inflation-melody
> with the "acutely" modern, contemporary accords of evolution of a given
> country and, of course, of the whole world. Economics is to be
> "denotated".
>
> In Russia after the august-september 1998 natural end of unrealistic
> manipulation
> with the totality of mechanisms taken for its needy
> only-economical-part, the attentive observer could look and the
> paradoxically positive things. Such as, say, active and very fast grow
> of production of Russian food and other ware, which is accompanied
> partitive... but deflation.The blighty industries are in days of crisis
> maybe even onto good thing. Prices are near to the level of the period
> before August 17th. May be it's the uniquely correct "decision" that
> was not made -- it has happened by itself.
>
> There is a landscape of economical life. It is an important but,-- and
> surely it sounds flaky enough, -- far not the absolutely and
> individually PRIOR.Its value may be define rightly only after
> our-general-aimings-assessment.
> As to the Russia, we may add that she rarely had the fulldeveloped
> society during normal periods of her existence. Her peculiarity consists
> in having of highly organized and extraordinarily spiritual society for
> extremal years. Maybe, that is the phenomenon which instinctively have
> used her rulers in the past and the contemporary are trying to do that
> by now , proposing to her people the always present at hand possibility
> of going on the brink of abyss. I am not afraid to appear on the eyes of
> my compatriots as a cynic saying that for Russia such a state of things
> is in some way normal. And the peoples vitality here is evidently
> trained in such way that is not easy to explain to him who does not know
> the genuine historic and mental background of physical existence,
> economy and culture. The inner logic of hyper-emergent behavior of
> Russians like,evidently, of each other people all around the world is to
> uncover, be it said incidentally, by the cautious and attentive integral
> analyst. The Corn Law in England in its time. e.g., has a similar
> effect as "surplus appropriation system" in Russia closely after
> October, but their "social work" seemingly has meaningful peculiarity.
>
> Special surprise in me is produced by the "data" about tributes
> supposedly taken from the "soviet colonies", because I too good know
> that it were as like as opposite -- communist party robed his own
> country and his "beloved people" in name of "the world revolution" by
> means of super-donations for support of different "people liberation
> movements" and "young people democracies". And the sums are
> astronomic... But, I agree, that "socialist integration" as an important
> part of Politburo politics had its mysteries.
>
> My little chaotic comment is rather in somewhat sense consistent to the
> notion "crisis":-), that, apropos, often has here in Russia calm and a
> little sarcastic face. Popular saying now in broad use may be
> approximately translated as following:
> "We have come through that incomparable chores and asperities, so such
> new one means just nothing". The quantity of smiles, a regrettable
> thing, is not for an economist, be he Keynesian or Friedmanian, a
> serious parameter :-).
>
> For Homo Globalis instead of Homo Sapiens!
>
> Best regards.
> Val
>
> Valery Kourinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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