“Democracy vs. Autocracy” - and Putin’s Greatest Crime

Here is the real reason that the West hates Putin so much, and why he poses such a huge threat.

Joe Biden is fond of talking about the conflict between Russia and the West as a “civilisational” one. For Biden, we are engaged in a manichaean struggle between Good and Evil — the “Good” of democracy and the “Evil” of autocracy.

But in order to understand what is really going on, we need to delve deeper into what Biden actually means when he says “democracy”, and what he means by that much-abused term “autocracy”.

In this article I will explain how the difference between Biden’s visions of “democracy” and “autocracy” really just comes down to how each system handles its oligarchs.

Democracy in the West

When Joe Biden talks about democracy, he means American democracy, so-called “Western Democracy”. In other words, he is touting the neoliberal economic and political order that has seized the collective West by the throat since the 1970’s and the advent of the “boys” from the Chicago School of economics, led by Milton Friedman.

When I wrote my series of articles entitled “This is Neoliberalism”, I explained that because Neoliberals believe that the Market is an impartial and efficient distributor of resources…