The conspiracy theory claims global elites plot to hoard the world's wealth and resources, leaving the rest of the planet to starve — and it's gaining traction in Moscow amid the Ukraine war.
That makes sense. One can think of him too as a bonapartist – I believe Zyuganov described him that way back in 2000 – but of a peculiar sort: one whose government arose not from an established capitalist state in decay, but from a failed comprador regime that replaced a genuine socialist government. Hence he inherits, at the very least, the geopolitical position of the USSR vis-a-vis America and the west.
That makes sense. One can think of him too as a bonapartist – I believe Zyuganov described him that way back in 2000 – but of a peculiar sort: one whose government arose not from an established capitalist state in decay, but from a failed comprador regime that replaced a genuine socialist government. Hence he inherits, at the very least, the geopolitical position of the USSR vis-a-vis America and the west.
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