[lbo-talk] Leninist/Maoist Finance?

[boddi satva]

On 1/6/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- boddi satva <lbo.boddi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, and then you can explain to us why China is
> chucking almost its
> entire state industry into the bin, as Russia did.
>
> ---
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> Dammit, I am sick of hearing this. Russia did NOT
> chuck its state industry. Russia's economy is ALMOST
> HALF STATE-OWNED. Gazprom  is STATE-RUN. Russia
> recently RENATIONALIZED its LARGEST OIL COMPANY.

So why wasn't the Soviet Union a huge gas and oil exporter? How did
the decision to become a great petro-power happen after and not before
the planned economy phase?

Russia has a national oil company. So what? So do most petro-exporting
nations. Is Saudi Arabia Leninist?

 Cars? Steel? Consumer goods? How much of what you buy is produced in
Russian state industry?