Kremlin Begins Re-Socialization of Russia
Justin Higgins — Wed, 2005-12-28 03:09
The Russian government is starting to take over some industries again, marking that their pro-communist agenda is still alive. The Russian government, for the sake of generating revenue and taking control, is beginning to take control of the oil industry again. This type of socialist takeover isn't surprising to me, since Putin is a former communist who is using socialism as a tool to destroying freedoms and reinstating communist programs.
KREMLIN REASSERTS CONTROL OF OIL AND GAS
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Sounds like what liberals
RepsRule (not verified) — Thu, 2005-12-29 08:40Sounds like what liberals would like this country to become. Liberals are more of a danger to this country than Al Quaeda.
Kudos Wayne on your latest
Quatermain (not verified) — Thu, 2005-12-29 08:34Kudos Wayne on your latest comments! The voice of reason does live on this blog. So many want to assume and jump to conclusion without hard evidence. Thanks Wayne.
It's a shame to hear that
Slow Slosh (not verified) — Wed, 2005-12-28 06:02It's a shame to hear that about Russian. I hope they don't turn back into a communist state.
I think their basic problem is a lack of entrepreneur. During their communist days entrepreneur would of been the worst type of criminal. They would of been creating black markets for every day items that the communist could not supply in big enough qualities. I would think after all those year of being treated like criminals, one day the goverment said why don't you run a normal business it OK now, they might not think it was such a good idea. ;)
The whole thing with Russia
Wayne (not verified) — Wed, 2005-12-28 04:45The whole thing with Russia economy is pretty complicated to say the least. I'm not sure if there were any serious analysts out there that thought the transition to capitalism would happen in anything less then 50 years because things were so screwed up. The truth is that in some of the former soviet block countries the fall of communism was used as a way for foriegn investors to basically by huge chunks of industries real cheap.
I met a guy once from the former czeck repbulic. At least I think that's where he was from. Might have been from a different soviet block country. What they did was give each citizen a few thousand play dollars. Basically monopoly money. They could use this to bid on a certain number of stocks for a particular company that was being privatized. So for example, let's say you want to get stock in a car factory. You make a bid using say 400 of your 1000 play dollars and that would get you a certain amount of stock. This sounds like an awsome idea that is fool proof. Well, sure enough, someone figured out how to take advantage of the situation. The people living in these countries are in really bad shape right now and willing to do anything for a few extra bucks. Investing in a factory for the most part wouldn't pay off for most of them for quite some time. So what happened is foriegn investors with a bunch of money came in and told people, look, if you get stock in company xyz I'll buy it from you for this price. So instead of the government owning the factory an outside interest owns it. Doesn't seem to benefit the people too much in either situation.
Government ownership of a particular commodity isn't that unusual in any country, capitalist or communist (Actually, I think in most of the major oil producing countries the government controls the oil). The problem with communism is that it's completely fascist with the government owning everything and controling everything. But there are many capitalist societies where the government owns a particular commodity because it actually works out better of the general public in that situation. A great example of this is water. For most municipallities sewage and water distribution is run for city and municipal governments. Not really sure why this is but it tends to work out for the most part.
Just putting my two cents in.
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