Re: Global inequality

11/26/2000, Jozsef Borocz wrote:
    >  6)  The collapse of the Soviet late-Stalinist imperial attempt.

I don't see evidence for Soviet imperialism.

Imperialism is an economically exploitive endeavor.  Russia has been
attacked from the West every time some power assembled a big enough
army to make the attemp.  After Hitler's assault, the Soviets had the 
wisdom to insist on a buffer zone - for geopolitical, not imperialist
reasons.  It is significant that Eastern European 'satellites', under
the Soviet regime, in many cases had higher standard of livings that did
Mother Russia.  

Soviet economics, lacking the capitalist system, had no
imperialist motive.

rkm