6 documents
Putinist Russia and the World’s Fascist Moment
Ilya Budraitskis
e-flux Notes
Posted: June 28, 2024
Category
Fascism, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Russia
Global Post-Fascism and the War in Ukraine: A Conversation
Enzo Traverso and Ilya Budraitskis
e-flux Notes
Posted: June 8, 2023
Category
Fascism, War & Conflict
Subjects
Russia, Ukraine, Neoliberalism
# 76
What Can We Learn from Vampires and Idiots?
Ilya Budraitskis
The German socialist August Bebel once called anti-Semitism “the socialism of fools.” A fool from the lower classes, the thinking went, indignant at the existing state of things but unable or unwilling to locate the real source of his unhappiness in the capitalist mode of production, instead found a facile but false target in the Jews. The result of this fool’s bad decision would prove catastrophic: instead of joining the ranks of socialists, he became their fiercest and most dangerous…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 5, 2016
Category
Fascism, Ideology
Subjects
The Enlightenment, Crisis, Ethics
# 70
The Eternal Hunt for the Red Man
Ilya Budraitskis
The dramatic events in Russia and Ukraine over the past two years have begun a new phase in the struggle over the legacy of communism in the post-Soviet space. As the concrete features of “real socialism” become blurred and vanish, those necessary for the production of ideology become ever more sharply defined. It’s often argued that communism, buried a quarter of a century ago as living practice, has since acquired an afterlife in the form of a restlesscorpse, a remnant, a regurgitated…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2016
Category
Communism, Capitalism
Subjects
Russia, Soviet Union
# 65
The Extraordinary Adventures of Guy Fawkes
Ilya Budraitskis
For the revolution to happen, everything must be done to prevent it.
Cunning of speech art thou! But I am slow
To learn of thee, whom I have found my foe.
—Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
If there has been anything consistent about the extremely eclectic ideology of the post-Soviet Russian state in the past decade, it can be described with one idea: anti-revolution. This is not to be confused with counterrevolution. Counterrevolution, as the term has been used since the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Subjects
Russia, Revolution, Conspiracy
# 57
Hope in a Hopeless Situation
Ilya Budraitskis
Why is there no antiwar movement in Russia? Why are so few people willing to take to the streets to publicly accuse the government of furthering the war in Eastern Ukraine? People who supported the March 15 peace march in downtown Moscow still pose these questions to each other. Their numbers are constantly shrinking, but the point is that even those people who still support the spirit of protest no longer have any confidence that protest can change anything.
If the new war (or prewar)…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2014
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Russia, Protests & Demonstrations, Propaganda