Appeal Quote by Chrystia Freeland

“In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us,…

— Tom Clancy

Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional changes, especially…

— Jim Stanford

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Every type of political power presupposes some particular form of human slavery, for the maintenance of which it is called into being. Just as…

— Rudolf Rocker

“If there’s one thing that we capitalists have in common with the communists of old, it’s a pathological obsession with gainful employment. Just as…

— Rutger Bregman

In general, global economic growth supports Russian economy.

— Elvira Nabiullina

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia…

— Esther Dyson

Russia has now become a nation fueled by petro-dollars that is basically a KGB apparatchik-run government.

— John McCain

This is how the Russians have operated for years - they get the goods on people and then they can get you to do…

— Richard Painter

“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you…

— Audre Lorde

“Russia was a kleptocracy, all the power in the hands of a corrupt few. The term thrown around these days was “elite capture”; the…

— Mark Greaney

The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to…

— David Graeber