{"id":27396,"date":"2026-06-16T00:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27396"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:46:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:46:23","slug":"they-are-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/?p=27396","title":{"rendered":"They are us"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Russia is in fact the posterchild for full-blown authoritarian neoliberalism and in many respects the neoconservative and neo-traditionalist discourse emanating from the center is intended to distract and displace opposition within the country to the terrible life-chances of all but a tiny, privileged percentage of the population<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 6em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014Jeremy Morris, &#8222;Russia\u2019s Vanguard Authoritarian Neoliberal System&#8220;, in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Backlash-9780745352015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Backlash: The Global Rise of the Radical Right<\/a><\/em>, (London: <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Pluto Press<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2026), 123<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8222;They&#8220; really <em>are<\/em> &#8222;us&#8220; &#8211; the feeling of familiarity I get in Russia can be disconcerting. It&#8217;s like looking at oneself through a sort of distorted mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is in fact the posterchild for full-blown authoritarian neoliberalism and in many respects the neoconservative and neo-traditionalist discourse emanating from the center is intended to distract and displace opposition within the country to the terrible life-chances of all but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/?p=27396\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27396"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27403,"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27396\/revisions\/27403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mail.wehle.lt\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}