[extropy-chat] fun in Russia with the new `capitalists'

[randy]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 01:43:19 -0600, you wrote

>http://www.nypress.com/16/45/news&columns/cage.cfm
>
>Robert or other informed Russophiles might care to comment on the accuracy
>of this scorching piece.

And another telling excerpt from that article:

"Some of us who came home after seeing this began to realize that the
same process is underway in the United States: the erosion of the tax
base, the gradual appropriation of the tools of government by economic
interests, a massive, disorganized population useless to everybody
except as shoppers. That is their revolution: smashing states
everywhere and creating a scattered global nation of villas and tax
shelters, as inaccessible as Olympus, forbidding entry even to mighty
dictators."




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