Putin’s ‘Society Of The Spectacle’
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Ilya Budraitskis writes that in Putin’s Russia, the mass media has completely gone from being a function of society to a form of power over it. In alliance with the authoritarian regime, it has made the country a real “society of the spectacle,” the totality of which would horrify even the most radical critics of Western capitalism.

“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.

  • @CookieJarObserverEnglish
    10•9 months ago

    Eh i still see a lot of bastards supporting Russia because its against capitalism (while being literally a genocidal feudalistic Dictatorship)

    • @[email protected]English
      11•9 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      9•9 months 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?

    • Tomassci
      3•9 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      3•9 months ago

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