“In alliance with the authoritarian regime, the [Russian] mass media has made the country a real ‘society of the spectacle,’”, says Ilya Budraitskis, a political and social theorist previously based in Moscow. Currently he is a Visiting Scholar with the Program in Critical Theory, UC Berkeley in the US.

  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
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    Eh i still see a lot of bastards supporting Russia because its against capitalism (while being literally a genocidal feudalistic Dictatorship)

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      Russia is a mafia state. Mafia is anarcho-capitalism.

      Tankies supporting Russia because it’s “anti-capitalist” demonstrates 1) that they are misguided fools and 2) that they are not anti-capitalists, but anti-West.

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      Russia hasn’t been against capitalism since 1989. Stupid tankies. Today’s Russia is their arch enemy, a capitalist fascist mafia state.

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      Russia isn’t even against capitalism, they do their own super corrupt flavor of it for decades. Why else is the first thing coming to mind when someone says oligarch a super rich Soviet collapse profiteer?

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      I’m pretty sure capitalism is perfectly compatible with a genocidal feudalistic dictatorship.

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      It’s ironic, people be like “capitalism goes to fascism in crisis”, then when Russia actually does that they support it