[modr8r note: I am letting this post through, but it's the last one on
this thread. nothing personal to any list members, but I am going to try
and keep the list focused on the 60s/Vietnam/activism. I do find Bill's
insights on the Soviet Union/America/socialism/capitalism interesting, but
i feel it is outside the parameters of this list. those interested in
continuing this thread, please take it off-list or persuade Mr. Mandel to
start a separate list. thx!]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:02:16 -0400
Subject: Re: [sixties-l] Re: Bill Mandel's view
From: "Elmer Lightman" <lightman@frontiernet.net>
Once again your unparalled knowledge of the Soviet Union clarifies an issue.
I can't understand why you aren't continued, not merely on KPFA, but
nationally on National Public Radio. Have you prospected the various ways
programming reaches them or is syndicated to independent stations? There's
college radio. There are other networks. Perhaps a new program with
yourself and a partner to carry the programming, vary it, intensify it for
today's concerns. If you teamed up with someone with additional credits,
there's a lot of possiblities, to make an offer station's "couldn't refuse."
I changed the subject line on the discussion to focus beyond the
interminable concern with what one Horrowitz said a month ago to the
material we have learned from you which the discussion has centered upon.
1) Could you supply some insight into my question regarding the Soviet
Union's practice or lack of regarding conservation of resources?
2) Also, were the geological resources the only ones that mattered in the
economic race between the U.S. and the USSR? Didn't we get other important
resources from third world countries that USSR couldn't? Wasn't that most
of what the cold war was about--stopping them from those resources and
markets?
3) Have we fallen into an error in referring to the fall of "socialism" when
we mean communism and even more specifically, totalitarian style communism.
Isn't it vital to be careful of terms, especially in this case, and I
realize I led off making the error in my post.
Elmer Lightman
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>From: William Mandel <wmmmandel@earthlink.net>
>To: sixties-l@lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: [sixties-l] Re: Bill Mandel's view
>Date: Sun, Jul 16, 2000, 11:14 PM
>
> One of the very wise things the Soviet government did, from
>its earliest years, was to reason that if the USSR covered
>one-sixth of the earth's last surface, it should have something
>like one-sixth of the natural resources. In consequence, a superb
>system of training on geology and in prospecting was put in place
>and maintained throughout. The result was the discovery of damned
>near everything. To this day, U.S. subs and aircraft are largely
>made of light metals imported from the USSR!
> So lack of resources had nothing whatever to do with the
>collapse of socialism.
> wILLIAM mANDEL
>
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