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How close is socialism to coming back in Russia and Belarus? (April 2024 edition) (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here I am, asking pretty much the same question again, only a year later. I ask again because conditions have changed a lot even in as little as a year. BRICS is becoming more powerful, state enterprises are becoming stronger in Russia, the USSR remains a positive memory to the majority of Russians and Belarusians. What are your thoughts and predictions?

I'll try not to ask the same question again to prevent from annoying yall.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Belarus is already sort of socialist. I’m pessimistic about Russia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Same, from what I can tell the model in Belarus is very close to what China is doing. Belarus is also increasingly working more closely with China which will only help strengthen the direction of politics and the economy. On the other hand, Russia is very much capitalist, and the conditions in Russia are nowhere close to revolutionary right now. People's lives are generally decent, so I don't think there's going to be any mass interest in rocking the boat. That said, I do think there is long term potential in Russia because people do view socialism positively, and they're not completely blind to the problems of capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

what do you mean by sort of socialist?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428

Read this one for a change

In the early days of Lukashenko’s administration, the public economy accounted for about 75% of total GDP. With the reform of state-owned assets in the new century, the proportion of private sector increased, but generally accounted for no more than 30% of GDP, while amounting to 60–80% in Russia, Georgia, and Eastern European countries after the transition. The public-owned economy is also the main force to absorb employment, with those employed in state-owned or state-controlled enterprises accounting for about 70% of total employment (Slon Magazine 2015).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I was going to give you a study, but you’re not going to read that; I only read the intro myself. I’d say, search the grad because you’ll have better answers than me riddling something off the top of my head.