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.
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.
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