I HAVE OFTEN THOUGHT THAT THE RUSSIANS WERE A POOR CHOICE FOR TESTING THE BENEFITS OF A SOCIALIST ECONOMY...
BECAUSE THE RUSSIANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HISTORY'S "BIG SCREW UPS"... THAT'S WHY GERMANIC EUROPE HAS TREATED RUSSIANS LIKE BULGARIANS FOR CENTURIES.
WE COULD BE MOVING TO A MIXED ECONOMY ... OF BIG GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS...AND ONLY SMALL SCALE CAPITALISM...SORT OF LIKE WHAT RUSSIA WAS IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD FROM 1950 TO ABOUT 1970.
INDEED WE SEE THIS ALREADY WITH THE POPULARITY OF EBAY, AMAZON AND OTHER SMALL SCALE "FLEA MARKET" TYPE ON-LINE SELLING VENUES... SHADES OF THE ANCIENT RUSSIAN "RYNOK!"...OR THE "CRAFTED BASED" VILLAGES OF OLD RUSSIA...
ON CNBC RECENTLY A LADY WHO LOST ALL HER MONEY TO BERNIE'S SCHEME...SAID SHE WAS GOING TO TRY TO SUPPORT HERSELF BY "MAKING JEWELRY...!" LIKE A KIEVAN OR MOSCOVITE "BABUSHKA!!"
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN EARLY CRAFT BASED CAPITALISM NEEDS EXAMINING...BECAUSE MANY AMERICANS ARE HEADED THERE WITH THE DEMISE OF THE LARGE US CORPORATIONS...BECAUSE;
NEARLY ALL BIG US COMPANIES SEEM TO BE GOING BROKE OR MOVING OFF SHORE!
OR PERHAPS WE MOVE TO A SCANDINAVIAN MODEL OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICS AND ECONOMICS...
SOME FIND SCANDANAVIA LIFE TOO BORING...PEOPLE HAVE HIGH SUICIDE RATES...
BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT IN A CRADLE TO GRAVE ECONOMY.
WELL A FEW MORE YEARS OF THIS ECONOMIC DECLINE AND CHAOS...MIGHT MAKE STOCKHOLM "KAFE LIFE" SEEM RATHER PALATABLE...EVEN TO THE RICH.
I'M READY NOW...
