Also, debt, wages and taxes are regularly not paid, and there is a process of de-monetization and the growth of a widespread system of barter. Despite the partial establishment of the market system and private enterprise, neither the bulk of production and distribution nor labor is dominated by the law of the market or the law of value. A majority of workers in industries such as extraction, transport, manufacturing, even many service industries such as health, still have jobs-of a kind, although unemployment is steadily rising. To some extent this maintains a certain cohesion and social weight of the working class in society. The same managers often cream off some of the surplus for their own ends.
Corruption is probably endemic.
Although more than 50 percent of the GDP is from the privatized sector, the remaining socialized sectors are often barely functioning and their workers go unpaid. It is clear, although impossible to accurately quantify, that non-capitalist social relations continue to predominate in a decayed form because capitalist social relations have not replaced them to become the dominant mode of production. Such a system of transition in reverse can't be stabilized for long, but it does reflect the failure so far of the neo-liberal offensive and the IMF's project. The fact that the Russian Federation has a rabidly pro-capitalist government dedicated to the restoration of capitalism is not the only factor in determining the class character of the state. Nor does the existence of an embryonic capitalist class mean that it is the ruling class-even if its representatives are in the government.