“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.
Eh i still see a lot of bastards supporting Russia because its against capitalism (while being literally a genocidal feudalistic Dictatorship)
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.
Russia hasn’t been against capitalism since 1989. Stupid tankies. Today’s Russia is their arch enemy, a capitalist fascist mafia state.
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?
It’s ironic, people be like “capitalism goes to fascism in crisis”, then when Russia actually does that they support it
I’m pretty sure capitalism is perfectly compatible with a genocidal feudalistic dictatorship.
Because capitalism is just an economic system.