This is what it looks like:
Markets in everything; every aspect of existence is monetized; it’s all a gamble; complete lawlessness, etc.
The Neoliberalization of Warfare
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This is what it looks like:
Markets in everything; every aspect of existence is monetized; it’s all a gamble; complete lawlessness, etc.
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“Markets in everything; every aspect of existence is monetized”
To get people mad at me, I’ve been following these stories for a while and what I keep thinking is “this is what a libertarian society at war would be like”….
Modern neoliberalism seems like the absolute worst parts of the libertarian weltanschauung and sexual boutique leftism… I keep trying to imagine who that appeals to and those thoughts don’t go anywhere good….
Still on the same idea…. (disintegration of russia into a death cult hellscape) I had the idea that violence in schools had been increasing and then saw a stat (unconfirmed) that things like school shootings have increased something like 400% in the last year or so… traditional russian values in full malodorous bloom (that is _not_ sarcasm by the way).
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Is it like the wonderful neoliberal housing market… where between failing to pay up, and getting executed on the frontlines, everybody else mocks you for being a failure and not working hard enough to afford it?
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” mocks you for being a failure”
One thing I never knew before this war was that within russia (and despite propaganda saying otherwise) just being in the military is proof of being a hopeless loser.
On another forum, a supposed “anti-putin” russian woman didn’t care at all about russian soldiers dying, declaring them “useless ” while expressing the idea she’d rather marry a western guy anyway…. another pro-regime russian guy had no sympathy whatsoever for soldiers saying in effect only the poorest and stupidest end up in the army so who cares how many have to die to ‘liberate’ some Ukrainian village?
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Is this a cause or an effect?
Like, is this people hating on the military because they’re proles, or is this people reassigning military men to “prole” status so they don’t have to care about them?
-ethyl
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Whenever I ask my husband about his teenage years, like who were his friends, which movies he liked, if he went to hang out at the department store, whether he went to smoke behind the school building, whether he went to video salons, all the hallmarks of post-Soviet teenage years, his answer is always that no, he did nothing because he had to study. The obsessive studying was motivated by the terror of being conscripted. He ended up leaving Russia and becoming an illegal laborer in the UK because of the terror of being conscripted. It was very much a class issue. Being conscripted was seen as a catastrophe unlike any other because conscripts are slaves. They are the lowest of the low. They are completely discardable. It’s the loss of status, the loss of manhood. Even outside of active warfare, the conditions in the army were worse than prison camps. The Russian army has every pathology of the Russian society times one million. The amount of sexual violence among the soldiers is beyond words. This is not recent. Thirty years ago, being conscripted meant you are going to be raped. Today, it’s all much worse.
This is one of the reasons Putin can’t stop the war. Imagine all of these brutalized, raped and mutilated men coming back home. Not even Putin is stupid enough to fail to understand what this means.
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That’s a great analogy because yes, the neoliberal mentality works the same in every aspect of life.
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