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.

  • Astroturfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I can just hear the tankies screaming western propoganda, NATO evil so Russia good. Screaming it so hard at the screen it vibrates their entire body until they need their sock changed. Do they make communist hot pockets?