Market Socialism in Belarus: An Alternative to China's Socialist Market Economy
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Since Lukashenko came to power, Belarus has embarked on the road of market socialism, in which privatization has been halted, and the dominant position of state-owned economic components in the national economy has been established; a vertically managed and efficient model of state governance has been implemented, the presidential leadership has been strengthened, and social fairness and justice have been prioritized. In addition, Belarus has kept good diplomatic relations with the CIS (Commonwealth of Independence States) countries, China, and other countries through pluralistic and multi-directional diplomacy. Market socialism has helped the economy of Belarus recover from the decline immediately following the breakup of the USSR and develop rapidly. The country's economic foundation has been getting increasingly stable. A strong social security system has been established, and social welfare covers the largest social groups, which ensures employment and civil rights to the greatest extent, continuously improves the living standards of the population, and thus avoids social division and ensures social stability. Market socialism in Belarus is a special system of socialist market economy, its theory and practice can teach important lessons to the current practice of socialism and the reform of capitalist system

  • Soviet Snake
    12•2 years ago

    Only read the abstract, and while I critically support Lukashenko and Belarus, and I’m sure they have taken some based policies and so on, don’t you think calling it socialist may be a little too much? I mean, here in Argentina we have free healthcare, free education, public transport could be better (but it exists), water, gas and energy infrastructure exists in big proportions in the public level, but I would not dare call use socialists; sure, maybe the policies are, but not our government. Just a comparison, and an ignorant question since I’m not an expert on Belarus.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      7•2 years ago

      From what I know Belarus effectively kept the old system after USSR dissolved. Here’s a Bloomberg article lamenting how it works better than they expected. They’ve since introduced some concessions to markets, as pretty much every socialist state has, but as far as I know socialism is very much at the core of it.

    • @gcb@lemmy.ml
      -3•2 years ago

      Argentina is far from socialism on widespread racism alone.

      all other aspects are irrelevant until that is gone.

      • Soviet Snake
        8•2 years ago

        You have a bad understanding of socialism, my brother. Socialism is a transitional state from capitalism to communism, during which you try to improve all the previous wrong doings of this hideous system, therefore inherently you will deal with things like racism, which you must fight improving the material conditions and doing an intersectional analysis of what causes these issues.

        • @gcb@lemmy.ml
          -2•2 years ago

          yeah, good luck doing that only for your fellow whites. go to argentina before defending them. see the coop factoriea where black people is not welcome.

          • Soviet Snake
            3•2 years ago

            Che, soy Argentino pelotudo. Que batis. They are public and everyone cna access them, maybe it is harder in the villas but it doesn’t come near to what it is in the US.

      • @coluna_prestes
        5•2 years ago

        Strange take. World is racist. Racism is a capitalist issue. As long as capitalism is around, we can’t get rid of it.

      • @coluna_prestes
        1•2 years ago

        Strange take. World is racist. Racism is a capitalist issue. As long as capitalism is around, we can’t get rid of it.

  • IngrownMink4
    2•2 years ago

    And are people comfortable with Belarus’ policies? Some time ago I saw that the government had very little acceptance among the population (leaving aside the color revolution of the opposition, of course) because Lukashenko has been in power for quite a long time (since the USSR era, right?).