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A confirmation

In Reply to: A note on the concept of 'state capitalism' and an explanation why the U.S.S.R.'s bureaucracy capitulated to capitalism posted by Barry Stoller on November 07, 1999 at 22:18:02:

: And it is transparently obvious why the government then chose capitalism: it would secure for itself its PREVIOUS privileges on a surer footing (inviolable property rights instead of ephemeral bureaucratic rights).

A confirmation of this thesis can be found in this week's New York Times Magazine. Lech Walesa recently observed:

They [the former Communists] were better prepared for the new society... I see the Commies, I see the clever guys doing well.'
(New York Times Magazine, 7 November 1999, p. 81.)

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