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Russian social media interventions are highly sophisticated & effective. Their methods are replicated by belligerent politicos who rant indiscriminately at democratic institutions & individuals they disagree with. Authoritarians need unfocused discontent. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-troll-2020-election-interference-twitter-916482/
But this article doesnt explain why Putin's Russia, Trump's America, Brexit Britain, Chinese dictatorship, Brazil's far right, and every Bannon-inspired Eurofascist wannabe are now working together, often in disconnected ways, against democratic institutions & idea of democracy.
As always you follow the money. The age of neoliberalism has ushered in vast sloughs of wealth which have been siphoned out of democratic control & slosh around offshore treasure islands, the black market & anywhere else it can be escape taxation.
Collapse of state communism, retreat of w/class self-organisation & marginalisation of mass support for any coherent leftist ideology has seen the capitalists of the West make common cause with authoritarians of every shade, fascists & international organised crime syndicates.
This is what we're up against. If dont follow the money none of this makes any sense. What we're up against has NO consistent ideology. That's defining character of political era we're in. It exists to cultivate confusion & despair to demoralise all opposition. Carry On Looting.
Like many on the left I've inadvertently played into the hands of the agents of chaos by often indiscriminately attacking democratic institutions (in my case Westminster or Edinburgh Council) rather than ideas of those who run these in interests of financial & corporate capital.
It's all about learning, changing our behaviour, and always, always, always, following the money. Otherwise we just get bogged down in every petty irrelevant distraction, every manufactured outrage, every deliberate provocation & we rant pathetically & impotently into the ether.
