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C is for Corporatist, P is for Party, A is for Apparatus...,
2003-11-13 12:58:18
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the backchannel peace deal...,
2003-11-17 13:32:16
Khodorkovsky:
what this business is all about. Brief and bitter, just the way we like it.
Khodorkovsky's philanthropic efforts are otherwise necessary to defend the assetts he stole in the first place: successful robber barons lobby for society's protection of what they carted off with, and hand back some of the stolen goods to recieve accolades of endearment from the masses. Defending them becomes a form of begging, and the tradgedy goes on from there. The fact that Russia's entire class of elites would be locked up with Khodorkovsky by the same standards, as is commonly acknowledged, provides little reason not to lock them up too, but they haven't come into conflict with the designs of the state, or Putin in particular, and so they won't, which is too bad, but these divisions between state and capital can sometimes open a path for some sort of popular reform, if there's anything organized enough to carve it out: "They were neither radical nor left-wing, but the logic of political confrontation drove them into such a heated conflict with the regime that no compromise was possible."
:: posted by buermann @ 2003-11-13 15:11:25 CST |
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