Re:The 2 Simple Reasons the Soviet Union Was Doomed to Fail
by jbooth on Saturday November 20, 2010 @07:35PM
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1) Same with the Soviets, as per the original point. I'm not a big believer in communism but these 2 cases together add up to some pretty good evidence for communism when it comes to catching up industrially.
2) Like I said, window dressing. The major corporations are effectively part of the government as far as anything major goes, and internally communistic like any corp. I guess you do get the advantage of one weakened chain link from the corporate leadership to the gov't, and that's somewhat significant, but you can certainly draw parallels from the current chinese miracle to the 1950s soviet miracle -- gotta remember, they beat us to orbit.
2) Like I said, window dressing. The major corporations are effectively part of the government as far as anything major goes, and internally communistic like any corp. I guess you do get the advantage of one weakened chain link from the corporate leadership to the gov't, and that's somewhat significant, but you can certainly draw parallels from the current chinese miracle to the 1950s soviet miracle -- gotta remember, they beat us to orbit.