U.S.S.R. and China
Sir,—ln his second article, Sven Lindquist (January 22) passes shallow judgment on Soviet economic planning in a travestied version supplied to him by the director of a steel works in Wuhan, and clearly a rationalised justification of China’s abandonment of socialist planning under the baleful influence of Maoism’s Great Leap Forward and the Proletarian Cultural Revolution, both negative distortions of Marxism. The pragmatic improvisation on which China is now embarked has been forced on it following the anarchy and chaos of the Maoist era. In 1921 the Soviet Union, under its new economic policy, allowed a controlled measure of private enterprise while it laid the groundwork for the first fiveyear plan, 1928, when private enterprise was finally liquidated in the Soviet Union. Whether this is China’s present policy or it is heading down the capitalist road has yet to be seen. Speculation that the Soviet Union could follow China’s footsteps is ludicrously laughable. — Yours, etc., 1 M. CREEL. £ January 24, 1986. ‘
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Press, 30 January 1986, Page 20
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