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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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.
Yes he's a FASCIST dictator. He decides everything in Russia and the elections are just a fraud. The thumbnail image says everything
Where can I watch the entire series? Thank you.
thanks ever so much for this interview. It is very interesting!
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?
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
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.
So in other words Russia is living the Libertarian dream.
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 !
well if 50% of russia population won $500 per month average,they are more rich of the i think.i am from brazil a big rich country and more than 70% of population wins $350 per month average.if u guys dont want putin,send him to brazil for run as president.
Is Putin’s rule a dictatorship? Is Pope Francis a communist? The answer in both cases is YES.
That Russia is now under a strong man of sorts is not unexpected. This is always the case when a communist nation rids itself of Leninism. And besides, this is what the Russians like in a leader, a tough guy.
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.
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%.
In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s when oil prices started increasing I believed it was from oil discovery peaking. When the prices dropped after 2008 it was obvious the prices were manipulated; watching this video makes me wonder if there was a Russia angle to the oil price increase and decrease story. This is a great set of videos it’s letting the viewer see another version of how Russia evolved from the 1960’s until today.
I can't believe that Russians make less money than central americans.
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.
Ah, the parasitic kakistocracy sounds eerily similar to the USofA. Corrupt oligarchs, politicians, and controlling intelligence agencies running the shop. Controlled news create and push division and fear propaganda. I'm sure their polling and election system can't be trusted as is here. The Don and Vlad duo appear to be playing by the same gamebook. Throw Bibi in the mix as the corrupt hi-tech HQ of the world with support of the two corrupted nuclear powers, and they'll have us all locked down soon. Cut out the cpu to stop the cancer, so Bibi and Israel have to go for starts, then deal with rest of the psychopaths. Time to halt the bleed of our energy and money to the service-to-self parasites.
In regards to poverty levels, I'd say take from the rich since they enjoy such extreme wealth that allows them purchase HUGE estates while those who are poor suffer from their greed. You have to take into account that YOUR richness if not shared provides you no joy in the end, that material possession that you have will not be buried with you, will not talk to you in a friendly manner etc… Those who are rich are those who are poor in their hearts, they've riches their pinnacle by being successful yet don't comprehend the LIFE VALUES of sharing a little makes the heart happy. I keep on hearing Putin this, Putin that, it's as if Russia is comprised of only Putin, and therefore the need to call him a dictator is taken out of context when you pass such a poor judgement on a MAN trying to stabilize his country, to take it further into the future, trying to fight the west who's strength will be one day fall from their pedestal. Putin it NOT the only person to make these CHANGES IN THE COUNTRY. Here in Canada, they tend to amalgamate our LEADER into the only person responsible for all the woes of a country, this is being so ignorant in knowing your politics. Putin has risen above and beyond the call of his duty as President, there is major changes that still need to be considered BUT THE NEGATIVITY needs to take a hike because all it does is bring about bad things, being POSITIVE in your thinking will bring a wealth of feelings of having surpassed your abilities and make you strive towards making it better. blah blah blah. ONE MAN'S OPINION **A. Buzgalin** MAKE YOU SIR THE ONLY PERSON TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF POLITICS. TY.
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.
Can you make this easier to follow the 12 discussions in a row?
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.
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?
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!
Trump said that putin loves Israel and Netanyahu….he loves them so what does that tell u about Putin’s role.
Professor of marxist studies? That says a lot.
THANK GOD FOR PUTIN!
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
at least they are not Rothschild's