Russian disenchantment with Western liberalism has produced a worldview hostile to end-of-history triumphalism. The rise of this ideology may be another sign of liberalism’s decline, but its tenets set it at odds with liberalism’s socialist critics.
That said, I think the article is decent. The headline fucking sucks and vastly oversells how confrontational the article is. This dude IS writing from a place of authority in a field I know nothing about, that is, contemporary Russian political theory, so I'd be interested to see what other people in the same field think of his quick overview.
However the bit Bloobish highlighted in their comment is an unforgiveable slip of the ideology on the part of the author that makes me think there might be a trace of liberalism in the way he parses those Russian authors.
What really confuses me is his refusal to take any stance. He doesn't seem to side with anyone at all.
I found it to be a gigantic slice of nothing. Russia may crush liberalism but, did you know, Russia Bad? (Yes, we know, Russia Bad)
My favourite thing is where he dismisses the admittedly dumb idea of Civilisational theory as dangerous and wrong, only to replace it with an almost indistinguishable variant of the same theory which he then corkscrews from a proto-Fascist call for civilisational renewal into a nice flowery defence of 21st century Liberalism.
Little bit of context for you context heads.
That said, I think the article is decent. The headline fucking sucks and vastly oversells how confrontational the article is. This dude IS writing from a place of authority in a field I know nothing about, that is, contemporary Russian political theory, so I'd be interested to see what other people in the same field think of his quick overview.
However the bit Bloobish highlighted in their comment is an unforgiveable slip of the ideology on the part of the author that makes me think there might be a trace of liberalism in the way he parses those Russian authors.
What really confuses me is his refusal to take any stance. He doesn't seem to side with anyone at all.
I found it to be a gigantic slice of nothing. Russia may crush liberalism but, did you know, Russia Bad? (Yes, we know, Russia Bad)
My favourite thing is where he dismisses the admittedly dumb idea of Civilisational theory as dangerous and wrong, only to replace it with an almost indistinguishable variant of the same theory which he then corkscrews from a proto-Fascist call for civilisational renewal into a nice flowery defence of 21st century Liberalism.
It really should have been titled "here are some russian political theorists" and just not mentioned the West at all