Putin & the Conspiracy Theorists (Political Fantasy)

[alice malice]

http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/5889/full

here is a widespread tendency (again not specifically Russian and not
invented there) to believe in occult, hidden forces which are the real
shakers and movers in world politics, whereas those about whom we read
and hear in the media are merely their puppets. Some Russian
ideologues believe (or pretend to believe) that the real struggle in
world politics is between two parties — the Rothschild party and the
followers of the Rockefellers. Believers in contemporary conspiracy
theories generally have only a dim idea of where the real big money is
found. According to the more learned followers of Lyndon LaRouche, for
instance, it is a bitter fight between factions on a higher
philosophical level — the Aristotelians and the Neo-Platonists. But it
is not made clear where they keep their money — certainly not in
present-day Greece. There has been in recent years a close cooperation
between the Russian extreme Right and the LaRouchans; a recent example
is Sergei Glazyev's "On Eurofascism" in Executive Intelligence Review,
a LaRouche organ.

This belief in the hidden hand and the forces of evil tends to be
particularly strong in times of great upheaval. The Protocols were not
really influential during the first two decades of their existence.
But after the First World War and the Russian Revolution, events of
world historical importance which could not easily be explained, the
Protocols were widely read and often believed because they seemed to
offer a key to otherwise inexplicable events.
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