Sovereign democracy: dictatorship over capitalism in contemporary Russia

Medvedev's Russia is not a totalitarian state, just as it is neither a liberal nor a managed democracy. Such classifications are unable to grasp that the current situation concerns political ambition rather than the preservation of power. What is lacking is an insight into the imagination of Ru...

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Published in:Radical philosophy 2010-01 (159), p.38-43
Main Authors: Svetlichnaja, Julia, Heartfield, James
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Democracy
Elites
Identity
Political Development
Postcommunist Societies
Russia
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Summary:Medvedev's Russia is not a totalitarian state, just as it is neither a liberal nor a managed democracy. Such classifications are unable to grasp that the current situation concerns political ambition rather than the preservation of power. What is lacking is an insight into the imagination of Russia's new ideologists themselves. Such new ideology is founded precisely upon the uniqueness of its concept of a sovereign democracy. Such an ideology is certainly illiberal, but it is not anti-democratic per se, since it does have mass appeal.
ISSN:0300-211X