But things improved in the Soviet Union too. The question is, what would have happened in tge counterfactual? Happily for political economists, the world has given us exactly three counterfactuals: p… (View Post)

I know. It's almost as if the world doesn't divide neatly into goodies and baddies*, heroes and villains, saints and sinners. Nuances abound. All we can do is recognise this. Lamemtably, mi… (View Post)

Yes, I agree. I found if I didn't HAVE to take notes, my attention drifted and nothing went in. If I did, I somehow managed to gain all the knowledge effortlessly, apart from a slightly tired wr… (View Post)

Interesting he uses the British form 'pissed off' rather than what I understood to be the American form 'pissed'. (View Post)

Whereas communists are all sweetness and light and hardly ever engage in mass murder? (View Post)