Thread: Does Communism still have a role to play, or is it dead?

Originally Posted by Marcus

You mixed the cause and the consequensis here. We produce mainly raw materials because of the free trade and capitalism.

Not quite. Today's export of raw materials is a business which is among the few surviving the crush of the USSR. The USSR had exported raw materials, especially oil to sustain the state at least since Khrushev's time. It reached the peak of production by the end of its existence in 1991:

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