“Oh yes,” Minh said. “And your technology also disrupts my culture.”
“That disrupts our own culture too, Minh,” De Barti said.
“But why communism?” Egan asked. “There hasn’t been a society in history in which Marxist collectivization has been popular. Communist states are always police states. Commie economic policies always destroy their own economy. No one, once it’s been accomplished, likes it. Minh, it’ll be either you join the collective farm or factory or they’ll kill you. It’s that simple.”
“They’ve got to try it,” El Paso said. “Coming out of colonialism is like coming out of childhood, like going through adolescence. They’ve got to experience it all in order to decide in which direction to go. It won’t last long. Communism has a moral ring if you read the doctrines. It really s
