Hùng biện, chẳng hạn hỗ trợ chỉ có thể tăng cường Nhà nước trong Liên bang Xô Viết và do đó làm giảm và làm tê liệt hy vọng duy nhất cho Nga và các nước cộng hòa khác: khu vực tư nhân non trẻ và đấu tranh. Viện trợ cho Gorby, do đó, có thể là một phần thưởng cho Gorby và bạn bè của ông, nhưng nó là nhất thiết và ineluctably một sự trừng phạt khắc nghiệt đối với các dân tộc Liên Xô, bởi vì nó chỉ có thể trì hoãn và làm tê liệt trở. | Economics Beyond the Borders 407 and the rest of the neo-Communist nomenklatura. Regardless of rhetoric such aid can only strengthen the State in the Soviet Union and therefore diminish and cripple the only hope for Russia and the other republics the nascent and struggling private sector. Aid to Gorby therefore may be a reward for Gorby and his friends but it is necessarily and ineluctably a harsh punishment for the peoples of the Soviet Union because it can only delay and cripple their return or advance to a free economy. To paraphrase a famous statement of Dos Passos all right we are two nations every country is really two nations not one. From one nation the people interacting voluntarily in families churches science culture and the market economy all blessings flow. The second nation the State produces nothing it acts as a parasitic blight upon the first productive nation taxing looting inflating controlling propagandizing murdering. In the Soviet Union and other Communist countries the State grew so wildly as to virtually swallow up the first nation and the parasite ended up virtually destroying its host. The Soviet people need a . bailout of its own State apparatus like it needs to use an old New York expression a hole in the head and quite literally. And while the American public one hopes resists the notion of foisting upon the Soviet Union more of what has brought it to its current sorry state we might even turn our attention away from foreign woes and tyrannies and focus again upon our own beloved State here at home. But then there is the seeming clincher in rebuttal if we don t bail out Gorby won t worse people come to power in the USSR Well who knows In the first place it is not given to us to decide the fate of the Soviet Union that after all is up to the Soviets themselves. Again the United States is not God. In the second place since the future is uncertain a post-Gorby Soviet Union could be better or worse. So if we can t predict the consequences
