Same with Lenin's NEP (New Economic Policy), which put in place some market-based reforms in the Soviet Union.
And Arthur Jensen put it best in the movie "Network":
"What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do."
And in contrast to Hillary - who is firmly attached to socialist economic principles but changes her public rhetoric as she feels necessary to try to achieve power.
The real Hillary seeps out now again, as in her earlier attempt to introduce sweeping government control over the health care industry and, for example, her latest plan to have the government impose an interest-rate freeze for five years on home mortgages.
(Hillary’s modest proposal (to wreck the housing market):
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/16/commentary/birger_clinton.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008011617)