[Marxism] RE: Russian CP in Disarray

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm not sure about this. 94% of the Russian gas supply is controlled by the
Huge Gazprom company, which is state owned. Recently, the Russian government
has been cracking down hard on the Russian oilgarchs.




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> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 09:09:44 -0700
> From: David Walters <dwalters@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Marxism] RE: Russian CP in Disarray
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>  >Hi,
>
>  >Actually, as far as I am aware, the huge Russian gas supply has been
>  >state-owned ever since the official collapse of the USSR.
>  >cheers.
>
> Uh...not exactly. The state owns much of the basic extractive
> industries in Russia but little of it falls under anything you'd
> recognize as a 'left over' from the days of the USSR. Planning,
> specifically, or lack thereof, has denuded any 'state owned' industry
> of it's "nationalized" character. The Boards of Directors of these
> state owned industries are often drawn from privatized sectors of the
> ruling class, distribution, often from the well-head, is more often
> thean not completely in private hands, and even those 'state owned'
> industries are run on a "profit-and-loss" manner, where even their
> prices are determined by the market, not by...planning. What exactly is
> still a remnant of the October Revolution is almost nonexistent.
>
> David Walters

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