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Is Putin’s Rule a Dictatorship? - RAI with A. Buzgalin (8/12)


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Is Putin’s Rule a Dictatorship? - RAI with A. Buzgalin (8/12)
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Published on Jul 21, 2018

On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Alexandr Buzgalin says while Putin heads a powerful state, this is not a system of one man rule; more than 100 billionaires and a stratum of top bureaucrats have political power - with host Paul Jay

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Gustav
Pretty clear parallells to the US. Concentrated wealth. Insanely rich people making money from rents. Stagnating wages resulting in diminishing aggregate demand. Even with the current "economic boom" real wages are not increasing, in fact they're even going down.
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wizbangIWD
In Russia they have health care for all and that method of dental implants of each separate tooth, that came from Russia as well. So even the Russian people have health care and we don't !
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Shawna Smith
BY THE WAY GOOD REPORT THANKS
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I Know Its Crazy BUT
THANK GOD FOR PUTIN!
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red fury91
Regardless of what you may think about Putin, he is on a VERY short list of Presidents and world leaders who actually have been genuinely democratically elected by the people of their respective countries. It is extremely rare to be able to say that in most other places on the planet
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LN
If “lil ole me” is coming to learn about this stuff, then something big has happened, the genie for the super rich is out of the bottle. They must know two things;- 1. Oligarchy is not sustainable 2. The more people who know the truth, the more they are under threat. It’s time for things to be done, the circumstances have changed they know they need to do something!
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BMC
Can you make this easier to follow the 12 discussions in a row?
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Farero Lobos
Paul, you wonder why Putin is so popular with such levels of inequality, but Obama is still very popular and in the USA there's extreme inequality too, and it's increasing now while in Russia at least it experienced a dramatic decrease at the beginning of his government. And about prof. Buzgalin's statistics, I think he's exaggerating a little bit. According to UN recent statistics, poverty in Russia is 13% of the population, while in America it's 15%.
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Theosphilus Thistler
So in other words Russia is living the Libertarian dream.
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Robert Walker
That’s right focus on Russia as if America is without there own problems and plenty of them.
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Why So Serious
Is he talking about a Russian version of the Deep State? A core of bureaucrats in league with the oligarchs to maintain the status quo.
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fkujakedmyname
at least they are not Rothschild's
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Danny Knapp
So, is that video on youtube of Putin laying down the law on the business owners just b.s. propaganda?
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cougar1861
So Putin is "moderated" by a cadre of billionaires. This begs the question: why does the US so hate a sparklingly clear mirror of itself?
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polygamous1 Sozou
So then the 1% in Russia hold 80% of the wealth in the usa the 1% holds 90% of the wealth so in reality the Russian 1% n the usa 1% have the same common interest so why not the Russian n usa population not be allies as they have the same common interest? to better their lives? Because Putin is a much better choice than Yeltin was or anyone else backed by the west who want to go bak to the days of free pillage n robbery for all the 1% that is
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Janine Garverick
Putin stated he has the very same Shadow Government in Russia that he is dealing with that we are dealing with
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Natalia Reed
I had to unsubscribe from the Real News after listening to Mr. Buzgalin. I have trouble understanding why this old doddler, clearly trained by FSB for this visit to the US, received such a big chunk of time on your program - 12 episodes (originally 17)! I am the same age as Buzgalin, grew up in the Soviet Union, and took to my heels from that godforsaken country in 1975. I can vouch for this guy being completely untrustworthy. Where did he see young pioneers fighting "hooligans" in the streets? Where did he find kids and young adults being enthusiastic about "hard work" ("Arbeit Macht Frei"?) and being true "comrades" to one another, rather than "competitors"? The truth is that many career-minded people like Buzgalin used to report on one another and then subject their comrades (just because they happen to wear a pair of American jeans) to a public shaming for his or her "disloyalty" to their motherland and "bourgeois leanings"--a shaming that would be followed by an expulsion from college or a firing from a job. Buzgalin's emphasis on the capacity of Russians to "self-organize" since tender age is another myth! If I recall correctly, he even named the vanishing capacity of the Russian people to "organize themselves" as the major reason for the failure of the Soviet economy by 1991. The truth is that, historically, Russians have never had a chance to develop this capacity. They still long for a dictator and they got him in the person of the former KGB officer Putin. The positive comments below attest to the fact that Putin's propaganda via people like Buzgalin is working. Why not interview people like Masha Gessen or Timothy Snyder instead?
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Ben Smith
Zionist banking cabal family have been in Russia for at least a century. They are not known to let any ol'shmo run one of their Corps. So if Putin was mismanaging their asset, he would not be their. "Did i say would or wouldn't" ~ drumpf, the ultimate example of a faux presidency, with no true power.
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Tom Tapp
Trump said that putin loves Israel and Netanyahu....he loves them so what does that tell u about Putin’s role.
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Kathy Mayes
Professor of marxist studies? That says a lot.
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Josh Vanhee
You have to place this professor signficantly on the left of Putin. However, he also overstates the concentrated wealth, which contrary to the US, has been evolving positively away from the oligarchic share since about 2005. It is moving to the benefit of the middle class in the major cities, but isn't rippling down to the working class or the rural areas and periphery. In general, he is correct that Russia is not a dictatorship; it is a growing democracy with a lot of very positive signs. Personally, I would like to see more left wing ideas, but that is Putin - he is a middle-road but slightly to the right. Which should make him beloved and not reviled by the west. If not for the fact that the west - primarily the US - has botched so many things that just running a steady ship with smart foreign policy choices is making Putin look like the only statesman in this generation.
Pat
It is quite interesting - but hardly unsurprising - to discover that Russia suffers from same problems of corporate control and bureaucratic deep state interests, with similar results in terms of income inequality.
Kathleen Sisco
I suspect that yet another ploy to disrupt Russia is to create a 'Russian state' out of Ukraine where the movement will be to have the UN recognize the Ukraine as the 'official Russian State' and obviate The Russia. Following along the lines of the Egyptian Dawn that saw the overthrow of an elected government because it was not what the capitalistic world would allow. There is the reducing of the Middle East human capabilities thru epigenetic alteration via war stress, and the maneuvering to create Rojava from northern Syria, leading up to elevating Ukraine to the Russia per NATO and UN seats.
Shakti Love
Where can I watch the entire series? Thank you.
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