<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 20, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Dagon Gmail wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">China is as communist as my left shoe. Personally I don't think countries can be<br>effectively communist. Communism doesn't survive a shift <b>beyond</b> democratic<br>accountability - all utopian ideals desintegrate in a totalitarian system. But communism<br> is very useful in exerting pressure on a market that is totally out of whack. It isn't<br>generally acknowledged but the current Chicago school economic models are<br>leading us into a giant mess. </div></blockquote><div><br></div>Difficult to say since we departed from that type of economics in reality decades ago. It was precisely what that model preaches against that most unambiguously led us into this mess, government interference in the purported free market. And it is precisely massively more government interference and even direct control of the economy that nearly everyone is now clamoring for. Stupid monkeys. I hope we survive this and do not lose at least a generation on the achievement of our H+ dreams.</div><div><br></div><div>- samantha</div></body></html>