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One of my American students came up with a brilliant example when I was
trying to explain in the simplest terms possible what a socialist state was
supposed to look like. She said: Ah, professor, you mean, like Israel?"

At 11:12 +0400 05-04-99, Konstantin Borodinsky wrote:
>>
>>Are countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and the Congo capitalist
>>countries?
>>
>>George
>*****
>And was the Soviet Union a socialist country?
>And present Russia, is it a capitalist country?
>And what about Sweden - where to qualify this country?
>I feel something is wrong with the concept itself - to stick these labels.
> The approach shall be different.
>Further, there are no "capitalist" countries today in a Marxist meaning of
>the word.
>A definition of what IS a capitalist country is useful, too.
>Respectfully,
>Konstantin Borodinsky,
>Minsk, Belarus


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