Here’s an excerpt i found very interesting from a speech he gave a few days ago at the ASI forum:

"National and global processes are underway to develop the fundamentals and principles of a harmonious, fairer and more community-focused and safe world order as an alternative to the existing world order, or the unipolar world order in which we lived, and which, because of its nature, is definitely becoming a brake on the development of our civilisation.

The model of total domination by the so-called golden billion is unfair. Why should this golden billion, which is only part of the global population, dominate everyone else and enforce its rules of conduct that are based on the illusion of exceptionalism? It divides the world into first and second-class people and is therefore essentially racist and neo-colonial. The underlying globalist and pseudo-liberal ideology is becoming increasingly more like totalitarianism and is restraining creative endeavour and free historical creation.

One gets the impression that the West is simply unable to offer the world a model for the future of its own. Indeed, it was no accident that the golden billion attained its gold and achieved quite a lot, but it got there not because it implemented certain concepts. It mainly got to where it is by robbing other peoples in Asia and Africa. That is how it was. India was robbed for an extensive period of time. This is why the elite of the golden billion are terrified of other global development centres potentially coming up with their own development alternatives."

It’s fascinating to hear a leader of a country, even when he is a liberal and quite reactionary in many respects, say exactly what leftist anti-imperialists have been saying for so long: the wealth of the west is built on the robbery of the global south.

He explicitly calls out the west as racist and neo-colonial. I wonder if hanging out with his buddy Xi has rubbed off some Marxism on him, hahaha.

(However it’s cringy that he uses terms like “globalist”, that’s a meaningless term invented by the right wing in the US…and yikes at seriously using the term “totalitarian”, but i guess you can’t really expect better from someone who isn’t a communist)

  • KiG V2
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    2 years ago

    Maybe his use of “globalists” and “totalitarian” is to appeal to Western fascists and liberals respectively? I do wonder what the average person I know IRL would say if they heard this quote…most would immediately reject it by virtue of it being Putin but the message is so plain and so plainly real that surely a few people might warm up to him and thus BRIICS & Friends

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    “Totalitarianism” is a funny word. On one side, completely irrelevant lib talk, because taking the definition at face value, which ideology is not totalitarian? Just look at any religion, especially monotheist one for example… On the other, capitalism and liberalism are specifically the most totalitarian of all, no aspect of life, no idea, not a second of time is not influenced and not directed by it. Even those things that aren’t, you only experience them by first fulfilling or fighting hard against the totality of the capitalism.