As Russia emerged from its war-like raping by Western Neoliberals and their Russian “oligarch” criminal aides which resulted in the ruination and deindustrialization of much of Russia’s economy, Putin and his team made a series of basic moves to regain control of the economy and neutralize the oligarch criminals.
Thank you for this - this kind of article is exceptionally rare, as far as I know, and provides essential information to understanding how the RF operates
I was hoping to find a chart showing the entire Rostec universe, but was only able to find the two images I posted. The cover was in Russian initially and was the first time I tried translating an image. The second picture showing a small portion of Rostec's products makes a good impression.
The sentence "But this is primarily due to the fact that we have a state defense order: profitability is zero, and sometimes even negative." should be part of the rebuttal whenever it's claimed that the US's far greater nominal military spending implies greater effectiveness.
I'd imagine that pricing that's intended only to recoup cost would foster reuse wherever practical. It might be interesting to see an analysis of a series of tanks, planes, drones, missiles (whatever) that highlighted where each model retained the benefits of its predecessor while introducing new features. This might be especially instructive if done for military hardware made by Russia and that made by the US (although the latter would probably consist largely of flaws that didn't exist in previous models).
Russia constantly upgrades what it can upgrade--tanks, jets, artillery, drones, missiles, AD systems, ships, etc., while also doing new construction. And when your equipment is proven superior, then great--let's see if it can be made better. For example, Russia's newest tank is the T-14 Armata, but Russia still fields and upgrades T-72s and T-90s, with all three being better than anything NATO has. Look at Russia's Air Defense systems; NATO has nothing comparable as in not even close with Patriot leading the laughing stock. But military is only one function of Rostec as you read. Its civilian products are far more important.
Great article, Karl. It's nice to see Russia moving back to socialized production. It's important to remember despite all the western propaganda painting Putin as some creature from hell, that he is essentially a product of the Soviet system.
Under Stalin and his epigones, the progressive aspect of that system, nationalized and centralized control of the means of production, was destroyed plunging Russia and Putin personally into an imperialist nightmare, rape is a good word. But like democracy in the US, the average Soviet citizen held socialist measures in high esteem and took them seriously, despite the attitudes of the ruling elite. Putin seems to have been one such citizen.
I sincerely hope to see further moves in this direction in both Russia and China and those countries that can read the runes and realize the FIRE dominated west has no future.
Here in the heart of imperialism, the downtrodden masses of wage/debt slaves should begin to consider seriously a political program and organization to oust the puppets of the financial vampires that pass for leadership today and advance a similar program of socializing the productive forces of the country for the benefit of all.
Yes, Putin gets much of the credit, but much of the work is done as a team. You read his meeting with manufacturers, and you'll soon be reading his meeting with builders. What I see is a far more aggressive hands-on management of the economy aimed at attaining both feedback and results that differs markedly from the Soviet system, and all of it is aimed at uplifting the wellbeing of Russians. IMO, a political-economy whose primary aim is to uplift and support the wellbeing of its citizens is a socialist-centered system. And IMO, the Russian people know that's the basis for their system and are thus motivated to improve it in ways the USSR lacked.
After WW II the Dutch government embarked on a similar approach with combined public and private ownership. Even the Dutch Royal family contributed to the recapitulation of Dutch business. It all worked and the public entities slowly shed their investments over time.
Thank you for this - this kind of article is exceptionally rare, as far as I know, and provides essential information to understanding how the RF operates
This is what I often provided at my VK, insights into the Russian and Chinese political-economic systems versus the Neoliberal West.
fascinating! thanks karl...
I was hoping to find a chart showing the entire Rostec universe, but was only able to find the two images I posted. The cover was in Russian initially and was the first time I tried translating an image. The second picture showing a small portion of Rostec's products makes a good impression.
yes, i agree about the picture!
The sentence "But this is primarily due to the fact that we have a state defense order: profitability is zero, and sometimes even negative." should be part of the rebuttal whenever it's claimed that the US's far greater nominal military spending implies greater effectiveness.
I'd imagine that pricing that's intended only to recoup cost would foster reuse wherever practical. It might be interesting to see an analysis of a series of tanks, planes, drones, missiles (whatever) that highlighted where each model retained the benefits of its predecessor while introducing new features. This might be especially instructive if done for military hardware made by Russia and that made by the US (although the latter would probably consist largely of flaws that didn't exist in previous models).
Russia constantly upgrades what it can upgrade--tanks, jets, artillery, drones, missiles, AD systems, ships, etc., while also doing new construction. And when your equipment is proven superior, then great--let's see if it can be made better. For example, Russia's newest tank is the T-14 Armata, but Russia still fields and upgrades T-72s and T-90s, with all three being better than anything NATO has. Look at Russia's Air Defense systems; NATO has nothing comparable as in not even close with Patriot leading the laughing stock. But military is only one function of Rostec as you read. Its civilian products are far more important.
Great article, Karl. It's nice to see Russia moving back to socialized production. It's important to remember despite all the western propaganda painting Putin as some creature from hell, that he is essentially a product of the Soviet system.
Under Stalin and his epigones, the progressive aspect of that system, nationalized and centralized control of the means of production, was destroyed plunging Russia and Putin personally into an imperialist nightmare, rape is a good word. But like democracy in the US, the average Soviet citizen held socialist measures in high esteem and took them seriously, despite the attitudes of the ruling elite. Putin seems to have been one such citizen.
I sincerely hope to see further moves in this direction in both Russia and China and those countries that can read the runes and realize the FIRE dominated west has no future.
Here in the heart of imperialism, the downtrodden masses of wage/debt slaves should begin to consider seriously a political program and organization to oust the puppets of the financial vampires that pass for leadership today and advance a similar program of socializing the productive forces of the country for the benefit of all.
Yes, Putin gets much of the credit, but much of the work is done as a team. You read his meeting with manufacturers, and you'll soon be reading his meeting with builders. What I see is a far more aggressive hands-on management of the economy aimed at attaining both feedback and results that differs markedly from the Soviet system, and all of it is aimed at uplifting the wellbeing of Russians. IMO, a political-economy whose primary aim is to uplift and support the wellbeing of its citizens is a socialist-centered system. And IMO, the Russian people know that's the basis for their system and are thus motivated to improve it in ways the USSR lacked.
After WW II the Dutch government embarked on a similar approach with combined public and private ownership. Even the Dutch Royal family contributed to the recapitulation of Dutch business. It all worked and the public entities slowly shed their investments over time.