> I do have to disagree with Taibbi on one point... Very little of the
Russian
> economy is in foreign hands. That's the one bonus of an oligarchic
system --
> they screw foreigners, not the other way around.
Chris, a bonus for whom other than the oligarchs ? IMO, national bourgeoisies (in this case a proto-bourgeoisie) are far more efficient in screwing workers than either compradors or imperial capital.
I have to say as well, that I find Taibbi's comparison of the early Bolsheviks to arseholes like Chubais and Gaidar so grotesque that it's hilarious.