On Dec 7, 2007 7:02 AM, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, given all you say above, you are hard pressed to explain how and > why so many Soviet people were motivated to do so much work. > You are especially hard pressed to explain it since you seem to think > there was no reserve army of unemployed to pressure them to work. So, > from your standpoint all that was produced was done at gunpoint. >
The muzzle of the gun was sociological, that their newly found freedom (from various forms of serfdom) could evaporate into another callous monarchy... or worse. FWIW, primitive societies were very labor efficient too! The need to survive DOES that. Leigh
