Hi Chris,

Yes, Charles Lindblom wrote brilliantly on the inherent and crippling defects in the Soviet economic system from the seventies, for example, "Politics and Markets: The World's Political-Economics Systems" (1983).

I loved the reports of the central planning directives of the Soviet command economy - for example, when a directive came down to a glass factory to produce so many tonnes of glass sheets per day, yes, they produced them, an inch thick. When the directive was changed to so many thousands sheets of glass per day, the factory produced the required number of sheets, a mm thick, utterly useless in both cases. In that sense, the people successfully subverted an incompetent system. As for the production of nails and screws, .......

The Czech writer Joseph Skvoretsky wrote of similar tactics against both the Nazi (loose bolts in Messerschmidt's wings) and the Soviet-imposed systems. Brilliant !

Joe

Joe,

Yes indeed.

That philosophy was seen throughout the Soviet Union:

They pretend to pay us.

We pretend to work.

Yes, Hong Kong refugees can pose a danger, but so are returning Australians. What we do is to quarantine and test them, then let them in.

Genuine refugees who escape the claws of the CCP are not "foreigners", Ttbn, but our brothers and sisters in spirit and soon to also be our brothers and sisters in arms.

As Foxy commented that we need to understand our enemy, these refugees already know the enemy better than we ever will - it will be advantageous to use their knowledge!

Let us be quick as possible, before the iron gates close on them.

Foxy & Yuyutsu,

Yes, on the one hand, the inventiveness of the ordinary people is boundless, but on the other hand, their bitter memories and experiences of brutal power are indelible, they're not stupid, they can tell a phony sooner or later.

So it won't be easy for the CCP to infiltrate its supporters in amongst any Hong Kong refugees that we are sensible and compassionate enough to take in.

Perhaps, after all the marches and demonstrations in Hong Kong, the people involved have got to know each other well enough to know who to trust.

I think they will make a massive - and positive - difference to Australia. I hope some come and settle in my suburb :)

Joe

Dear Yuyutsu and Joe,

Yes. We need all the help that we can get in order
to be able to deal with the enemy that looms in front
of us. An enemy that so far we know so little about.

Our knowledge gap must be filled and our government needs
to see to it that this is done. The sooner the better.

In the meantime in my suburb and the surrounding suburbs
residential high-rise apartment buildings are sprouting
up all over the place changing the entire appearance of
the areas. The appearances of our cities are changing
beyond recognition.

Seriously, this stuff about new information about the CCP is hilarious.

No offence anyone.

Maybe you can remind me when I keep on writing about the CCP that I also have no new info