Oh OK, thanks for the context. I might .ave misrepresented the article as it was not presenting him as the defacto ideological guru of Russia just one of the ideologue of a faction inside Russia's elite.
Here is the article although it is behind a paywall: https://mondediplo.com/2025/08/07russia It was written by Boris Kagarlitsky and Alexei Sakhnin.
Could you elaborate please? I'm not knowledgeable enough on Russian politics and would be interested in learning more.
I recently read an article about division in the bourgeois class in Russia between people who wants an alignment with Trump and people who think, they should keep an anti imperialist line and align themselves with the global south.
Far right Duguin is preaching for an alliance with Trump's USA while people like Lavrov and the valdai club are more partisan of a global south line.
The contradictions in the Russian bourgeoisie were dormant but have been awakened in the past years.
Edit: here is the article but unfortunately behind a paywall https://mondediplo.com/2025/08/07russia
Let me know if someone's interested and I could paste the text here.
Why are all AI images so fucking orangey?
What a banger this article from ForeignPolicy is: China Has Picked Its New Model Entrepreneurs. As they are a journal for the economic and political elites they have to provide facts and not juste baseless propaganda, but the neoliberal viewpoints is so funny seeing what they find horrible are things I would love form my government to do lmao.
Here are some choice quotes, but the article is worth reading in its entirety:
Jointown’s positioning aligns with official campaigns such as “rural revitalization” and more broadly with the CCP’s long-standing concerns about inequality. Although the slogan of “common prosperity” has largely disappeared from official headlines—likely due to the chilling effect it had on private-sector sentiment—the core economic rationale behind it remains. A focus on redistribution, social equity, and public service provision, particularly in the countryside, continues to feature in the state’s evolving approach to economic governance.
This tension lies at the heart of China’s private-sector predicament. Beijing’s notion of entrepreneurship doesn’t fit easily with the traits that modern markets reward most readily: risk-taking, independence, and relentless disruption. In China, to grow too large, to become too rich, or to innovate in ways that unsettle vested interests can still provoke suspicion. For example, in 2020, after Alibaba founder Jack Ma publicly criticized China’s financial regulatory system for stifling innovation, Chinese regulators abruptly halted the IPO of Ant Group—Alibaba’s fintech affiliate, which had been poised to launch the world’s largest public offering—citing concerns over anti-monopoly violations and financial risk.
Many entrepreneurs, especially those beyond the political spotlight, remember the antitrust campaigns against the technology sector, the devastation of the private education industry, the arbitrary zero-COVID lockdowns, and the rent-seeking behavior of local officials.
The livestream when they boarded the ship in full gear and when they knocked the first camera had my blood boiling
I hope all you brothers and sisters currently living in Iran are safe and your family as well.
Here is a video of part of the boarding of the madleen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm3MEc8CcVk
There is also this proton drive with unedited footage from the Freedom Flotilla website: https://drive.proton.me/urls/CDYKESS7SC#ab0CGGgdRpYg
They called the footage: "IOF INTERCEPTION RAM BOARDING" LMAO IOF is becoming the official term I love it.
I don't understand "reliant on export to the us to service debt" part, anyone could dumb it down for me please?
Neil: "Listen, listen" proceeds to describe what humans do to sentient beings literally fucking right now as somehow a gotcha to vegans
The guy is like a lib saying socialism is bad and then proceeding to describe capitalism as examples of said things lmao.
If you look at the video in its entirety he spent the interview basically saying "we might vocally support bad things but republicans exist so...." by saying "the other side was talking about eating cats and dogs so why are we talking about fracking" and the short video @Parzivus@hexbear.net posted is basically the end on the interview and him just saying that when pressed by NBC about why Harris and him changed sides on the issue.
Still a massive shithead but not as incoherent as I first thought when I saw the first video.
Here it is: Please note this is a translation as the original article I read was in french. https://pastebin.com/0gWRaXnf