The coming Glorious Revolution

[Peter van Heusden]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:47:12AM -0700, Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 
> > Well, what's an alternative to Lenin for Russians today?
> 
> A developmental state which taxes imports, soaks the rich, and funnels
> energy-rents into the manufacturing base and working-class 
> incomes, where Petersburg and Moscow would play the same export-platform
> role for the economy as Beijing and Shanghai vis-a-vis China.
> 
In fact, a Russian friend of mine looks favourably towards China for
similar reasons. But I think that here you're just ending up back
at Yoshie's question - how do you transform the Russian state from
the current den of oligarchs to the kind of strong developmental
state your scheme requires without some kind of new Lenin?

Anyway, Russia as another China doesn't do much to answer the questions
I raised.

Peter
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