The conspiracy theory claims global elites plot to hoard the world's wealth and resources, leaving the rest of the planet to starve — and it's gaining traction in Moscow amid the Ukraine war.
He’s a mass populist trying to appeal to every political tangent at the same exact time (fighting alongside the Russian military in Ukraine are tsarists, communists, mercenaries that have questionable connections to other organizations, etc.) IMO modern Russia’s one of those states Lenin mentioned in the State and Revolution that are reliant on the support of multiple classes and generally just have superstructure for the sake of superstructure
That makes sense. One can think of him too as a bonapartist – I believe Zyuganov described him that way back in 2000 – but of a peculiar sort: one whose government arose not from an established capitalist state in decay, but from a failed comprador regime that replaced a genuine socialist government. Hence he inherits, at the very least, the geopolitical position of the USSR vis-a-vis America and the west.
He’s a mass populist trying to appeal to every political tangent at the same exact time (fighting alongside the Russian military in Ukraine are tsarists, communists, mercenaries that have questionable connections to other organizations, etc.) IMO modern Russia’s one of those states Lenin mentioned in the State and Revolution that are reliant on the support of multiple classes and generally just have superstructure for the sake of superstructure
That makes sense. One can think of him too as a bonapartist – I believe Zyuganov described him that way back in 2000 – but of a peculiar sort: one whose government arose not from an established capitalist state in decay, but from a failed comprador regime that replaced a genuine socialist government. Hence he inherits, at the very least, the geopolitical position of the USSR vis-a-vis America and the west.
This