The most interesting part of the interview for me was the later portion where Mironchik explains how Belarus managed to retain sovereignty by keeping the USSR state industry it inherited unlike all of the other former Soviet republics.
The most interesting part of the interview for me was the later portion where Mironchik explains how Belarus managed to retain sovereignty by keeping the USSR state industry it inherited unlike all of the other former Soviet republics.
It actually shocked me that something which we are used to discussing in the abstract such as the Marxist concept of unequal exchange can be demonstrated in such a simple fashion; i hadn’t even thought of it in that way before he mentioned in the interview that they noticed the West has basically been ripping them off by just comparing how much they got for the same products from the rest of the world to how much the West was giving them. This is the kind of straightforward example that can help people understand unequal exchange without having to get deeply immersed in a lot of fairly dry theory.
For sure, it’s a really great real world demonstration of the concept.