Reply To: Russian Tensions
“Gazprom is jointly owned between the Russian State (approximately 51%) and individual and institutional shareholders.”
Meaning a majority of the profits go towards the state to be spent on the Russian people.
“So TN and the clown from the video are incorrect when they say that the profits from use of natural resources in Russia are not used to increase the wealth of a select few.”
Russia’s is a mixed economy. I’ve never said otherwise.
“State ownership of the productive forces is not the solution of the conflict, but it contains within itself the formal means, the key to the solution.”
Exactly.
“So presumably TN considers Engels an ideological snowflake.”
No, only you and your merry band of Socialist Posers Guardian Bros.
“As to the Leninist concept of imperialism, which Johnny Mercer correctly analyses as follows “It almost requires a kind of conspiracy theory to suppose that capitalists give their workers more than their labour power in order to bribe them.”
And I’m sure that when a parent gives their child food, a warm bed and protects them from harm that is merely a bribe to get them to do their homework.
“When asked about how this bribe occurs and what the mechanism is by which the surplus value of third world workers is exploited by one capitalist enterprise (capitalist A) and a portion of it is consciously identified to be redistributed by western workers and then consciously distributed by other capitalist enterprises (capitalist B), Leninist supporters of this theory tend to fall silent.”
My, you are a bore. No one is arguing that parts of the Russian economy are not capitalist. With the betrayal of the USSR the capitalists had a field day. But since then they’ve been put in their place. The oligarchs no longer exercise singular control over the ship of state. Imperialism is not the Russian state’s reason for being.
“Similarly when asked why on earth Capitalist A would give up part of their profits to support capitalist B, they either remain silent or try to explain that the invisible cabal that run the system want to ensure that western workers are getting a more wealth than they produce in order to keep them from turning revolutionary!”
The issue is imperialism not the existence of capitalist enterprises in Russia.
“he has never read anything by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxembourg, etc.”
And you have and have come to the conclusion that everyone else who has, and has acted on those beliefs to bring about a Marxist state, are actually evil capitalists. Yet, your irrelevant little mutual masturbation society are the True Scotsmen, the true seeing keepers of the socialist flame. Lol. Your God-level arrogance is only matched by your insipid pedantry and gormless wit.