By “theories of emancipation” I refer to an array of critical and political theories that propose anti-capitalist ideologies and practices that go beyond liberal-democratic politics and the arena of “real politics”—the arena of executive state power exercised through official government institutions.
For an example of these kinds of critiques, see DIEM 25, a pan-European direct-democracy movement founded in 2016 by, among others, former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis →.
Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society (Polity Press, 1987).
For examples see this interview with Noam Chomsky →; and Benjamin Schwartz and Christopher Layne, “Why Are We in Ukraine?: On the Dangers of American Hubris,” Harper’s Magazine, June 2023.
According to unconfirmed discussions, Gorbachev acceded to the unification of Germany on the condition that NATO not pursue expansion.
At an awards ceremony for the Russian Geographic Society six years ago, Putin asked a schoolboy where Russia’s borders ended. The boy responded nervously in front of a crowd that they ended after the Bering Strait, just before the US. Not quite, Putin retorted: “Russia’s borders never end” →.
Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom (Tim Duggan Books, 2018), 48.
Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom, 42.
Oleksiy Radynski, “The Case Against the Russia Federation: One Year Later,” e-flux notes, May 15, 2023 →.
Boris Kagarlitsky spoke about this in an interview with K. Sobchak → (in Russian).
Ilya Budraitskis, “Putinism: A New Form of Fascism?” Spectre, October 27, 2022 →.
Marat Gelman participated in the Ukrainian electoral campaigns of Viktor Medvedchuk (2001) and Victor Yanukovich (2004).
