This article offers a case study of the Russian-American pro-family organisation the World Congress of Families, explaining its emergence, strategies, and religious and political agenda from 1995 until 2019. The article adds to a growing body of research that sheds light on transnational networks of conservative and right-wing political and civil society actors. It zooms in on Russian pro-family activists as connected to such networks and thereby takes an innovative perspective on the Russian conservative turn as part of a global phenomenon. The article also makes the argument that a specific Russian Christian Right movement, comparable to and linked with the American Christian Right and conservative Christian groups in Europe, is taking shape in Russia.
Article was published in 2019.
Are they ‘right’ or are they actually far-right but they don’t say it just yet?
Wonder if we can do the same but inverse?
No, because there is no economic incentive to do so.
I think that maxes out at SocDems and doesn’t last long.
Not necessarily, I think key is that the armies should be stocked with socialists. Once we have enough, allies of capitalism can try to suppress a socialist revolt, but they will fail.
You don’t get to just declare the start of an arms race a victory.
You also don’t get to have that kind of independence in a globalized world; just try running your army on fossil fuels while not having any produced locally. It needs to be fully international, and we’ve seen that failure clearly with MLs who end up as NazBols.
