re: #239 Eventual Carrion

Not in my mind. Corruption in this scenario is colluding with someone else (family, friends, business cohorts, ex cellmates) to make them money. Giving money back to “the government” is just government money not spent. Once it leaves the government to someone else then it is corruption. “They” already have that money to spend, giving it back doesn’t make them any richer.?

Do you think that the head of the Ukraine, Yanukovych, was corrupt? The dude with all the palaces and the money and the gold everything?

He was ‘the government’.

Possibly not the means of production. How about the means of capitol for that production?

I don’t know what ‘means of capit[a]l’ is supposed to indicate. How about you tell me what you’re saying, since it’s your claim. Are you just saying the same oligarchs that control the government control the Russian arms industry?