Within days of the invasion of Ukraine, though, “violent repression and comprehensive censorship”—the hallmarks of the fear dictator, per Guriev and Treisman—made a quick comeback, with people being arrested just for holding blank pieces of paper as a protest, while the Russian government fought a war on civilians in finest Stalinist style.
This is not entirely new—nothing ever is—but the crossbreeding of clownishness and politics has never been so intense. The Russian dissident literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin taught us to cherish “carnival” culture as a liberating force in social life. It’s in the authority-mocking brio embodied by the comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, or, for that matter, by the self-deprecating clowning of Alexei Navalny, unashamed to play video games and to make lip-synched TikTok videos.
Finally, today’s autocrats tend to have a changing rather than a fixed series of villains. Anti-Semitism was always central to Hitler’s world view. Stalin, too, was a man of cemented antipathies. As the historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s work has shown, Stalin was a genuine Marxist intellectual who believed in class warfare and the evils of the bourgeoisie as much as any student at the Sorbonne.
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The reason it's on going is because their are limited consequences. The Billionaires just buy their way out.
In my simplistic understanding: democracy, even republics, are hard to pull off. They require an involved citizenship vs an autocrat is so much easier to let a leader and his followers do all that and you belong to those who benefit. No thought or anything is required. Auto=easy
and they will always exist
A hit-by-hit playbook written by the Clintons and Bidens...
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with the willing participation of Meta
It only works with the help of emotional journalists who have agendas other than just reporting the news.
We need books to trace the history of the scarred books.
'Discard democracy, or more likely, let it slip away while doing nothing, and you risk losing your freedom.'
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'Another account says that, in times of violent social change, the most militant of factions tend to triumph, and then the leader of the faction becomes the dictator of the land' New Yorker Ominous . Soon, India will certainly qualify.
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by calling its people tyrant..doing a good job on behalf of the authoritarian county..
Liberal principles such as free speech and racial color-blindness?
21st century Tyrant- A Benevolent Hero, who can successfully put his thoughts into action.
carly4330 Lies & Marketing. As long as you have both you can be a tyrant. Get the help of the military & you can become a dictator.
Good article
Terrifying read. Ugh.
They are better leaders compared to Obama and Bush who killed millions of innocent people and destroyed countries.
Why American media always fall in line with American politics? Where is free speech if you are going to use the media as government propaganda tool? Turks are good when they approve everything that the US wants and they are as bad as Hitler when they don't? Is this the logic?
Wow, meanwhile Dictator Zelensky has banned all opposition political parties, taken complete control of Ukrainian media, banned all men between 18 to 60 from leaving the country. Perhaps the New Yorker should reevaluate their BS.
What about Biden and Johnson?
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