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From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
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Subject: Re: Totalitarian vs. Communist
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Date: Wed, 29-Jun-83 09:32:29 EDT
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From Ziggy:

Yugoslavia is an example of the wonders of Socialism?! Yow! Yugoslavia
is worse off than Hungary. Which leaves us with the highly homogeneous
Scandinavian countries that prove, if anything, that culture has more
to do with prosperity  than whatever happens in the capitol.


Do you honestly believe that the median happiness (whatever that is) is 
signifigantly less in yugoslavia than it is in the U.S.A.  My experience has
been that rich and poor, in absolute terms of wealth, are equally unhappy.  
It is the side effects of poverty that are the problem.  What makes 
yugoslavia good is that the things about poverty that CAN make people unhappy
(gross inequality withing a society, lack of self-determination in the 
workplace, lack of medical facilities, lack of decent shelter) are lessened there thanks to the govt.  Yugoslavia is the only communist country where people can travell abroad freely.  There is no mass exodus.

What do you mean that yugoslavia is a disaster financially.  What developing nation isn't these days.  Its hard all around.

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