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Аннотация:One of the striking evidence of local globalization is a sharp increase
of crime and wide-spread corruption at a local level of rural communities in
Russia. The bulk of shadow economy including its criminal and corrupted
components is sized by Russian experts up to 40% GDP. At the beginning
of 1990s the extortion racket (the systematic robbery of businessmen) was
widely in use; over the last five years the corrupt practices are gaining the
advantage. Many sociologists estimate the current situation in the Russian
society as critical while using the term ‘system corruption’ to characterize
it (the latter understood as corruption that have pervaded all the levels of
social system and become an integral part of the system of government). In
my paper I consider the economic banditry (racketeering) and system cor-
ruption as a form of parasitical (negative) economic relationship that lock
out normal economic development through the deformation of the market
relationship and systematic withdrawal of the considerable amount of social
product. At the same time the specifics of my point of view would be mak
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ing the parallel between the criminal-corruptive and some ‘archaic’ (primor
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dial, pre-class, early class) economic relationships, which, in the situation
of radical socio-economic transformation, are being brought back to life.
Under the conditions of economic crisis the parasitical economic relation
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ships characteristic of most developing countries as well as countries with
transitional economies (countries of so-called ‘peripheral capitalism’) prove
to block the effectiveness of struggle with emerged economic and social
menaces; they are the phenomena worsening the economic crisis. All this
raises a whole range of philosophical and methodological questions: what
is the nature of post-Soviet societies? What conceptual apparatus has to
be applied to the analysis of “transforming” societies? What is the propor-
tion of “cultural-mental” and properly economic factors in the development
of post-Soviet states?