“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.

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    1 year ago

    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?