Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
система бандитского капитализма
English translation:
robber (predatory) capitalism, bandit capitalism, crony capitalism, criminal capitalism, gang capitalism
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Lina Episheva
Nov 17, 2009 19:03
14 yrs ago
Russian term
система бандитского капитализма
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Journalism
Я хочу играть по новым правилам открытого, конкурентного, законопослушного, не зависимого от бюрократии бизнеса.Многие мои коллеги готовы последовать моему примеру. Только так мы сможем вывести экономику из сложившейся при нашем участии системы бандитского капитализма, обрекающей страну на застой и маргинализацию.
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system of robber capitalism
... free the economy from the system of robber capitalism we helped to create ...
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I wouldn't be opposed to "bandit capitalism", either, although "robber" invokes the well-known expression "robber barons".
Or, reformulate: ... from the predatory capitalist system we helped to create ...
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And I agree with Jack, that "system" could be dropped, although it's also not bad to keep it if you think emphasizing that it was a systematic phenomenon is necessary.
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I wouldn't be opposed to "bandit capitalism", either, although "robber" invokes the well-known expression "robber barons".
Or, reformulate: ... from the predatory capitalist system we helped to create ...
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And I agree with Jack, that "system" could be dropped, although it's also not bad to keep it if you think emphasizing that it was a systematic phenomenon is necessary.
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capitalism run wild
I don't think you need "система" in English.
I don't think "bandit" sounds right, and I can't think of any other such word e.g. pirate) which does.
So I feel I have to settle for a less literal translation, which of course leaves the field open for a lot of possibilities: rampant capitalism, dog-eat-dog capitalism, etc.
I don't think "bandit" sounds right, and I can't think of any other such word e.g. pirate) which does.
So I feel I have to settle for a less literal translation, which of course leaves the field open for a lot of possibilities: rampant capitalism, dog-eat-dog capitalism, etc.
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Elizabeth Adams
: re: "system" is overkill in English, and with your other comments
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Thank you. Hello, haven't seen you around here lately.
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Bandit capitalism system
The recession must be a particularly bitter pill for the former socialist states to swallow. In the early 1990s, the rest of the world was in no hurry to tell them that they were not being transformed into successful social democracies but were being abandoned to what one Russian analyst has called bandit capitalism. Today, it is the apparently successful capitalist countries that have been hit hardest by the very bandit capitalism they foisted upon their former enemies in Eastern Europe.
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/03/10/stories/2009031054590800....
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/03/10/stories/2009031054590800....
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irssy
: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:toBMO3S3x8QJ:www.thewash...
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Спасибо!
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Alina EN-RU
: or "criminal"
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Emma Rogers
: without 'system' e.g. http://www.global-issues.co.uk/title/61718
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Zahar Fialkovsky
: "DE BORCHGRAVE: Bandit capitalism?" The Washington Times. Thursday, September 18, 2008 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/18/bandit-capit...
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system of crony capitalism
Can't think of any other collocations for this context, but this seems to encompass the general meaning.
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regime of brigand capitalism (economy)
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violent enterpreneur(ship) system/gestalt
That's, by the way how mafia is "officially" called in the cultural anthropology and sociology of Sicily (lookitup if you wanna)
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criminal capitalism
But these days, as Preobrazhensky's last chapters report with the factual precision of the investigative journalist he is, Putin's Russia is dominated by a criminal capitalism...
http://www.gerardgroup.com/newsletter/nl2009-06-10.php
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Путинизм как высшая и заключительная стадия бандитского капитализма в России
http://www.yabloko.ru/Publ/Book/Fire/fire_002.html
From Criminal Communism to Criminal Capitalism
http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_detai...
http://www.gerardgroup.com/newsletter/nl2009-06-10.php
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Путинизм как высшая и заключительная стадия бандитского капитализма в России
http://www.yabloko.ru/Publ/Book/Fire/fire_002.html
From Criminal Communism to Criminal Capitalism
http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_detai...
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System of Gang Capitalism/Corporate Racket
Capitalism is a system which divides society into two: a tiny ruling gang of white-collar criminals who will do anything and everything to stay wealthy, no matter how it hurts the other part of society.
http://maxlaneonline.com/2009/11/06/review-michael-moores-ca...
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Либо, как это назвал Пол Хлебников: criminal-gang capitalism
It would be hard to judge post-Soviet Russia a resounding success, afflicted as it has been by organized crime, corruption and a kind of Grand Guignol politics presided over by the brilliantly erratic Boris Yeltsin, recently retired from the scene. But few writers have portrayed the Russia of the last decade in starker terms than Paul Klebnikov, a reporter for Forbes magazine, does in his effectively angry new book, "Godfather of the Kremlin." In it Mr. Klebnikov details what he describes as a kind of criminal-gang capitalism, abetted by both murder and official corruption, that has resulted in the virtual expropriation of large portions of Russia's economy and political system.
http://www.zundelsite.org/english/zgrams/zg2000/zg0011/00111...
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With the harsh official and ideological constraints of the Soviet system suddenly removed, corruption — labeled by one observer "criminal gang capitalism" http://books.google.com/books?id=ZWTBUX10gaQC&pg=PA763&lpg=P...
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Only the "appearance" of the old Soviet system failed, while its underlying reality "morphed" itself into the new "Criminal Gang Capitalism" http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/06/23/P3/
http://maxlaneonline.com/2009/11/06/review-michael-moores-ca...
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Либо, как это назвал Пол Хлебников: criminal-gang capitalism
It would be hard to judge post-Soviet Russia a resounding success, afflicted as it has been by organized crime, corruption and a kind of Grand Guignol politics presided over by the brilliantly erratic Boris Yeltsin, recently retired from the scene. But few writers have portrayed the Russia of the last decade in starker terms than Paul Klebnikov, a reporter for Forbes magazine, does in his effectively angry new book, "Godfather of the Kremlin." In it Mr. Klebnikov details what he describes as a kind of criminal-gang capitalism, abetted by both murder and official corruption, that has resulted in the virtual expropriation of large portions of Russia's economy and political system.
http://www.zundelsite.org/english/zgrams/zg2000/zg0011/00111...
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With the harsh official and ideological constraints of the Soviet system suddenly removed, corruption — labeled by one observer "criminal gang capitalism" http://books.google.com/books?id=ZWTBUX10gaQC&pg=PA763&lpg=P...
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Only the "appearance" of the old Soviet system failed, while its underlying reality "morphed" itself into the new "Criminal Gang Capitalism" http://thetyee.ca/News/2006/06/23/P3/
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band of capitalist rogues
I like it despite the syntactic adjustment
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capitalism is an immoral system
Sarkozy blamed financial speculators for encouraging a system fueled on debt. He called financial capitalism based on speculation "an immoral system" that has "perverted the logic of capitalism."
"It's a system where wealth goes to the wealthy, where work is devalued, where production is devalued, where entrepreneurial spirit is devalued," he said.
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also "savage capitalism", "cowboy capitalism"
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rape and pillage capitalism?
"It's a system where wealth goes to the wealthy, where work is devalued, where production is devalued, where entrepreneurial spirit is devalued," he said.
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also "savage capitalism", "cowboy capitalism"
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rape and pillage capitalism?
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