What Authorities Do Before Sowing Campaign Is Pure Feudalism

The economist told about the main reason for the inefficiency of agriculture in Belarus.

Head of the analytical center "Strategy" Leanid Zaika spoke about a large wave of inspections of the State Control Committee at various agricultural enterprises of Belarus, in the express commen for Solidarity.

In particular, the SCC instituted 49 criminal cases due to various violations that were revealed before the beginning of the sowing campaign.

"Two hundred years ago, Karl Marx wrote that there is a discipline of labor, and there is a discipline of coercion," - the economist noted. - It has long been known that under capitalism there is an economic compulsion to work, and under feudalism there is a non-economic coercion to work. So that's what the State Control Committee doing - it's pure feudalism.

According to Zaika, people should be propelled top the sowing campaign by the "expected incomes, which can be spent to buy a car or a trip to Bali with your beloved wife," rather than checking.

"If fertilizers were buried into a land in some farm, it was the fools who did it. If they sold these fertilizers, say, to a friendly Kazakhstan or to fraternal Armenia - and earned money, then they would be more clever guys. So, I have nothing against selection among such illiterate leaders, " - he added ironically.

Describing the state of the Belarusian agriculture, the economist cited an "amazing thing" as an example:

- One day at a railway station in Minsk, I went to a store selling nuts and dried fruit. And what do I see there? Dried cranberries are produced in the USA. The second type of cranberries - cranberries in sugar - is produced by the Russian Federation. I ask the woman who trades these cranberries: don't cranberries grow in Belarus? She answers: probably, not. So I'm not interested in what the SCC, or the president is doing ... I'm interested in how the American cranberries got to the Belarusians. Guys, what will you do next?

According to Leanid Zaika, the way out of this situation is "the most simple": "Give people land and do not interfere with their work."

- There is much talk about a small homeland: the government wants us to take care of the village, the districts. Although the land is not ours, the factories are not ours ...

Our leaders needs to think about why the Belarusians can not be masters in their country. No check will help here. We already passed all these in the Soviet era - nothing has changed, " - the interlocutor summed up.