Guns. Missiles. Airplanes. Cars. Tractors. Nuclear power plants. The same stuff Ukraine's industry exports.
Anyway, it doesn't matter for the present situation. Russia's domestic manufacturing is satisfied by the 145-million-strong domestic market and the 300-million-strong ex-Soviet market.
--- On Mon, 11/24/08, Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote:
> From: Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Neoliberalism RIP
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 2:14 PM
> I've raised this before, so my question, not completely
> rhetorical, is
> what do they sell that anybody outside the country wants to
> buy,
> aside from energy? I guess they export skilled workers
> that others
> will hire, but any manufactures?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:16 PM, <dredmond at efn.org>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, November 24, 2008 7:43 am, Max Sawicky wrote:
> >
> >> what's the Russian model of industrialization?
> >
> > Here's the short list:
> >
> > 1. Default on your foreign debt and avoid dependence
> on external loans
> > thereafter.
> > 2. Expropriate the worst of the speculator-comprador
> elites running the
> > place into the ground, force the rest to become
> ordinary CEOs.
> > 3. Nationalize your leading industries (in
> Russia's case, gas, oil,
> > metals) and force the rest to pay their taxes.
> > 4. Get state banks (Sberbank etc.) to lend and create
> sovereign wealth
> > funds to save export earnings.
> > 5. Channel domestic savings into science and
> technology (Russtech,
> > nanotech, aerospace), education and infrastructure
> (social projects, Sochi
> > Olympics), rural sector (agribiz) and a nascent
> welfare state.
> >
> > None of this is theoretical. It's already
> happened, and offers a powerful
> > model to other middle-income countries with some
> history of urbanization
> > and industrialization, e.g. Latin America, Central
> Asia and SE Asia.
> > (Conversely, lightly urbanized peripheries like rural
> India and Nigeria
> > should look at China 1979-1990 and Vietnam 1985-2000
> for useful models).
> >
> > This is why the mainstream neolib press (what Peter
> Lavelle dubbed the
> > commentariat) has demonized Putin and demeaned
> Medvedev. In their own
> > narrow way, the commentariat understand that the
> semi-periphery is
> > breaking its neocolonial chains.
> >
> > -- DRR
> >
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