Is Russia a capitalist state?

Is Russia a capitalist state?
Is Russia a democraty?
Is Poutin a capitalist?

Yes

Yes
Kind of
Yes

Not a capitalist state imo. Very few companies are there.

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Mind clarifying your point?

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Capitalism isn't defined by some arbitrary amount of companies present in an area. Private property, wage labor and production for exchange are usually it's defining characteristics and Russia meets all of them.

This.

Current capitalism lives with free market, witch implies competition and pluralism of companies.

The free market doesn't exist. Stop thinking in memes.

Of course it doesn't exist. Capitalism is idealistic.

Except this is never what Capitalism has looked like and not how it's designed to behave. Most industries have 4-5 major companies that control pretty much everything, "competition" is kind of a myth, workers end up competing with eachother to keep their jobs far more then companies compete with eachother on the ""free"" market.

Then how do you explain that current class struggle of capitalists is to press for benefits of the competition? Doesn't competition of companies means more pressure to lower the wages?
(don't really know really, never thought of it, that's why I'm asking)

What else would it fucking be?

declining rate of profit pushes down the wages
competition is not necessary
tho in oligopoly markets there is some degree of competition
also Russian oil and gas companies compete with foreign companies for the share of European market

as said before
yep
sorta
I'm holding out hope he's a deep cover KGB agent working to resurrect the USSR, but yeah

no your economics teacher told you that. That doesn't mean its true
no, again this is just gnostic economics rationalism it isn't even remotely true at all ever. Its something that an economics teacher, who knows you paid money, who knows he can kick you out of his class, who knows he can imply you're disrupting class and kick you out, who can complain to the student conduct board that you're being disrespectful in class, who uses this coercive power over you to bully you into accepting these literally insane beliefs that no one who has graduated university and is either a capitalist or an economist believes. No one believes this or thinks this is sane or true. Its only people who are part of the economics fart-sniffing merry-go-round and literal porkies who say this.

they don't Google and Apple go out of their way to construct monopolies and not pay taxes and to steal ideas from other firms and to monopolize technologies.
No it usually, in theory, is supposed to increase wages as companies vie for valuable employees with marketable skills. The problem is that these companies often then lay-off huge numbers of people and render whole types of labor obsolete by trying to invent new ways to break even or make a profit. Which means you have lots of people who are hired on for a particular mode of production and style of profit seeking who are all subsequently out of a job because competition rendered that strategy totally useless, it doesn't matter if it was a good strategy, something that was productive or even inventive. If it led to a loss of profit margins compared to the rest of the industry it must be removed or down-sized which means firing people. So while yes competition drives up wages for some people, sometimes, it also outright destroys jobs and devalues people's work and skills.

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Yea sorry but you made 0 argument whatsoever.

Yes
Yes
Yes

Yes
In the Bourgeois sense
Yes

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ebin

No
No
No

Russia is a revisionist but socialist and anti-imperialist state

You're the real revisionist here user

hi phil

My Gott, what an embarrassment.

yes
yes
yes

Wait.. what do you mean Democracy?

take off that flag you faggot

Why do you think they're not capitalist? Is it because of the Russian government having a huge share in companies like Gazprom?

That's part of it. Russia was capitalist during the Yeltsin era, but Putin is rapidly reverting back to USSR style socialism.

read bordiga and stop posting

Yes
A capitalist one
Yes

Holy shitcakes

Yes
No
YEs

yes, no, yes.

Capitalism cant be democratic.