[lbo-talk] RE:Russia privatization

[Chris Doss]

Not at all. The options for Russia, in my view, are either 1) a mafia state, 
with renewed destruction of the country or 2) an authoritarian state on the 
lines of South Korea in the 70s-80s (with caveats because Russia is so much 
more immense and multicultural than SK). I am rooting for Option Two.

Things are so much better now than under Yeltsin that it is just amazing. I 
could just kiss Putin (and high oil prices).


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] RE:Russia privatization
>Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:28:50 -0500
>
>Chris Doss wrote:
>
>>What you are watching is the death agony of the oligarchs and the 
>>transformation of Russia into an authoritarian, dirigiste state-capitalist 
>>system, probably based on something like chaebols. Or that is my view.
>
>Which isn't the worst among the alternatives, is it?
>
>Doug
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