• Mindfury [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    Putin has decided that Russia is going to be a ‘safe haven’ for people who want to trade liberal Western ways for Russian ‘moral values’ liberalism

    • vovchik_ilich [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      To be fair, the current Russian government is more on a trend towards fascism than towards liberalism. Then again, as a European, I wish I couldn’t say the same about the EU

      • SwitchyWitchyandBitchy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        3 months ago

        I normally think of fascism as more or less liberalism/capitalism in crisis. I thought that shock therapy basically burned the economic structure that was already in place as fuel to accelerate capitalism and were so successful that they are basically doing a capitalism to late stage capitalism to fascism speedrun.