Autocracy, Inc: Anne Applebaum and Ruth Ben-Ghiat in Conversation

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  • Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024

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  • @frederickrapp5396
    @frederickrapp5396 2 месяца назад +89

    I could sit at the feet of Ann and Ruth all day. When they speak; I listen. Thanks for posting this discourse between 2 highly intelligent women.

  • @goarmysleepinthemud.
    @goarmysleepinthemud. 2 месяца назад +52

    Excellent! I was wondering when I would get to the opportunity to listen to both of these incredible women together. Thanks for this.

  • @juligrlee556
    @juligrlee556 2 месяца назад +41

    Two the most intelligent leaders in the United States. I keep buying their books and reading them. Their thinking is awesome and beautiful and helpful and interesting.

    • @alexisarouge
      @alexisarouge 2 месяца назад +9

      I hope the Harris campaign is consulting with them.

    • @barrysnyder930
      @barrysnyder930 2 месяца назад

      They’re no different than the neocons putting the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s what they don’t talk about in detail and have some sus substance from an opposing point of view.

  • @victoriawolf5600
    @victoriawolf5600 2 месяца назад +43

    Anne Applebaum and Ruth Ben-Ghiat are brilliant! I hope Kamala Harris consults with them and Timothy Snyder about Ukraine & Russia.

    • @NG-dc2pk
      @NG-dc2pk 2 месяца назад +2

      Just curious, What are your thoughts about John Mearsheimer?

    • @AllMagasGoToGitmo
      @AllMagasGoToGitmo 2 месяца назад

      @@NG-dc2pkhe’s a fraud and a hack, simps for putin like all the bots and paid trolls online, except he’s in the academy - he’s the Jordan Peterson of international relations, just spreading nonsense

    • @HagenKocksch
      @HagenKocksch Месяц назад

      it is pure warmongering? what are you on about? complete blindness to the shortfalls of the western systems! this endless blabla of freedom and democracy. does that still work for you? jeez!

    • @azalia423
      @azalia423 Месяц назад

      She doesn't mention that izrale is arming the world's autocrats, from Viktor Orbán to Mohammed bin Salman. See Antony Loewenstein

  • @minaguta4147
    @minaguta4147 2 месяца назад +41

    Anne is a treasure. Wonderful interview.

    • @barrysnyder930
      @barrysnyder930 2 месяца назад

      She’s just another neocon out of Poland the countries she talks about suffer because of our sanctions around the world regime change is what they don’t talk about Libia trying Syria. Central America is not unlike Eastern Europe to the Soviet union with the United States.

    • @JVendittelli
      @JVendittelli Месяц назад

      Blackrock has stolen all the money in the Usa. The USA and the UK are no longer European nations, they've become 3rd world nations that eat cats. This woman thinks she can lie to everyone

  • @MichellePoirier-m3x
    @MichellePoirier-m3x Месяц назад +14

    Absolutely fantastic show
    I've seen Anne on another show talking about her new book,; I will be buying it. It was wonderful to hear you both; both of you have expertise in subject matter that is quite relevant in America right now; please continue to speak out.
    Thank you both very much
    💙💙👍👍💙💙📚📚

  • @garretttedeman
    @garretttedeman 2 месяца назад +30

    Truly brilliant & timely discussion!

  • @ReadMoreHistory-v9u
    @ReadMoreHistory-v9u Месяц назад +6

    Love these two women. I always listen to their lectures and read their scholarship. We’d all be wiser to listen to them.

  • @michaelhermiston
    @michaelhermiston 2 месяца назад +17

    i was hoping there would be a meeting of these two great minds, articulate voices, and fabulous information which encourages us to work for democracy 💙🕊✔✍🏽🇺🇸💙

  • @teacher01ful
    @teacher01ful Месяц назад +6

    So good and full of info, I had to watch it twice. I could listen to the two of them forever.

  • @johnnorris3409
    @johnnorris3409 2 месяца назад +8

    Thank you. Love these two women. I've read their books and highly recommend them.

  • @niteskylight6699
    @niteskylight6699 2 месяца назад +12

    thank you for sharing this, very powerful, two wonderfully smart women, love the 92NY, brilliant conversation & dialogue

  • @jeannewolfe4489
    @jeannewolfe4489 Месяц назад +5

    Just bought Anne’s book and can’t wait to listen to it. So bizarre to be living right in the middle of this.

  • @T-zw3uk
    @T-zw3uk 2 месяца назад +16

    Excellent, thank you.

  • @frederickrapp5396
    @frederickrapp5396 2 месяца назад +10

    I could sit at the feet of Ann and Ruth all day. When they speak; I listen. Thanks for posting this discourse between 2 highly intelligent women. I’ve never seen them appear together on stage before.

  • @pricklypearcamera
    @pricklypearcamera 2 месяца назад +6

    Superb conversation- thank you both!

  • @lynnwalton814
    @lynnwalton814 2 месяца назад +7

    Fantastic interview. Now if only MSM payed attention to what's going on

  • @Soubhik12345.
    @Soubhik12345. 2 месяца назад +7

    Love listening to Applebaum.

  • @Struwwel2
    @Struwwel2 Месяц назад +7

    Even without reading Applebaum's book, those of us who believe in the value of liberal democracy can keep it in mind, front and center, the world's autocrats are collaborating and assisting each other.

  • @JackKennedy-f5r
    @JackKennedy-f5r 13 дней назад +1

    Anne and Ruth are absolutely amazing women and this was a fantastic conversation.

  • @rachelerynkalish2207
    @rachelerynkalish2207 Месяц назад +5

    Love these two wise and courageous women. Their scholarship is impeccable. Thank you both for the warning signs! As my mom-who lost many family in Auschwitz-used to say “never think it can’t happen here if good people do nothing.” Seemed very far fetched but she would not be shocked by trump.

    • @18_rabbit
      @18_rabbit 4 дня назад

      exactly! And relatedly, notice that the greatest gen and that right behind it were mostly gone (greatest gen) and rapidly dying off (those right behind) as Trumpism started and the new right in the EU got cooking, ie from around '15 on. We must mobilize organize and resist these trends which are always cyclical in 50-80 years cycles

  • @AmeliaRose1212
    @AmeliaRose1212 Месяц назад +3

    Great video thank you. Deeply appreciated 🙏

  • @KateColors
    @KateColors Месяц назад +2

    Thank you both!

  • @teacher01ful
    @teacher01ful Месяц назад +2

    Wow! So much in-depth information from these two leading authorities.

  • @thesilkpainter
    @thesilkpainter Месяц назад +3

    I wish I could give you more than one thumbs up.

  • @kitfattorini8779
    @kitfattorini8779 Месяц назад +1

    Most interesting! Thank you!

  • @vivelemoi
    @vivelemoi Месяц назад +2

    Always listen to your mother, and to all the women around you.

  • @D_isco_D_ancer
    @D_isco_D_ancer 27 дней назад

    Anne is so familiar and aware with the situation in Venezuela. It's amazing and I value it a lot as a Venezuela expat.

  • @D_isco_D_ancer
    @D_isco_D_ancer 27 дней назад

    Anne is a fantastic writer and intellectual.

  • @geoffreynhill2833
    @geoffreynhill2833 13 дней назад +2

    Democracy is too complicated for Dictators. 🤨

    • @geoffreynhill2833
      @geoffreynhill2833 13 дней назад +1

      Anne Applebaum is extraordinarily observant. 👍🤔

    • @18_rabbit
      @18_rabbit 4 дня назад

      yep , many definitions of fascism are that its foundation is the denial of complexity.

  • @tanyawilliams8254
    @tanyawilliams8254 Месяц назад +3

    💙 Vote Blue America 🇺🇸

  • @nickigonzales5544
    @nickigonzales5544 Месяц назад +1

    Brilliant and engaging

  • @sergiodzg
    @sergiodzg Месяц назад

    So good! ❤

  • @tigertiger1699
    @tigertiger1699 Месяц назад

    A real privilege.. thank you from 🇳🇿

  • @davedbarc
    @davedbarc 2 месяца назад +4

    Yes, a "big picture" book. I like picture books.

  • @skehleben7699
    @skehleben7699 14 дней назад +1

    I read through the comments after watching the talk and was terribly dismayed by how many pro autocracy comments were made. I wonder have they ever lived in a autocracy? I suspect not.😢

  • @lizgichora6472
    @lizgichora6472 Месяц назад

    Great discussion on Autocracy, Dictatorship and how they operate. Picking one and beat down as an example whilst the Top down model is enacted and numerous lies to drive motif.

  • @jamesbishop9156
    @jamesbishop9156 Месяц назад +1

    Love is the Law...

  • @alfredorezende-po8pg
    @alfredorezende-po8pg Месяц назад

    NO fear!!!!

  • @danabennett4098
    @danabennett4098 2 месяца назад +2

    Speaking of Latin America - How is ARGENTINA doing now? They had a bad situation (like Chile) for a long time. AND NOW? I have friends (Argentine) who live there and I've visited twice, so I love it there. So I worry.

  • @dawnoceanside7300
    @dawnoceanside7300 Месяц назад

    Those other countries don't sit on the comfy couch for almost a decade. 🤭
    Embarrassing!!!!
    Thank God for Kamala and Tim ❤️🇺🇲😎👍

  • @achenarmyst2156
    @achenarmyst2156 Месяц назад +1

    Concerning authoritarian propaganda in social media, my experience is mainly from RUclips which is basically great in sharing access to all sorts of information. But in certain channels you are just swept away by quite obvious fake news appearing in hundredfold variations, often in very bad English and getting upvoted without end.
    I just experienced this in a post from Times of India about the role of NATO and German military engagement in Lithuania. From the comments you got the impression that this is just the rebirth of German Nazism preparing the next attack on the poor and ever enduring victim Russia.

  • @internetidentity3917
    @internetidentity3917 Месяц назад +2

    Transactional, vengeful *and* mercurial? Sounds like someone I know.

  • @TheQuasar14
    @TheQuasar14 Месяц назад

    Confessions of An Economic Hitman speaks to this

  • @JacquelynRobinson-b1x
    @JacquelynRobinson-b1x 8 дней назад

    Name of the book???

  • @tahwsisiht123
    @tahwsisiht123 Месяц назад

    3:28
    4:16
    8:07
    13:35 Justice, accountability and transparency
    24:54 Dictatorships are secure and safe and reliable. Democracies are divided and weak and degenerate
    51:03

    • @azalia423
      @azalia423 Месяц назад

      She doesn't mention that izrale is arming the world's autocrats, from Viktor Orbán to Mohammed bin Salman. See Antony Loewenstein

  • @robertmeredith5905
    @robertmeredith5905 25 дней назад

    How much is religiously motivated? As this is what I see and hear. Also, the language presented, vocal patterns, the repetition of message is designed to create doubt in countries. It instills fear.

  • @amarbyrd2520
    @amarbyrd2520 Месяц назад +1

    Narrator: It was NOT a free election. And now look what has happened.

  • @hapennysparrow
    @hapennysparrow Месяц назад

    If someone wants to know the why and how of Trump, read Jeff Sharlet's two books, " The Family," and " The Undertow." Other excellent books are Kristin DuMez's, " Jesus and John Wayne." Or Katherine Stewart's " The Power Worshippers," and Tim Alberta's , " The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory." Sarah Posner has a great read titled " Unholy." There are others please inform yourself. There are deeper forces at work that have worked tirelessly to dismantle Democracy for over 50 years.

  • @HepCatJack
    @HepCatJack 3 дня назад

    When Ruth said that Russia isn't exactly paying people to influence people in the West, that's exactly what happened with the organization that was paying Tim Pool 100K per RUclips video and other influencers.

  • @danabennett4098
    @danabennett4098 2 месяца назад +2

    Is Trump trying to "make examples" of certain people - or just groups??

  • @GSD-
    @GSD- Месяц назад +4

    This interview is so disturbing, unhinged, and off base that I don’t even know where to start.
    From celebrating “Zimbabwe’s democracy” (look up the tens of thousands of Africans slaughtered by Mugabe in the 1980s) to calling Trump an autocrat (autocrats don’t step down from power and they CERTAINLY do not give up power if they think the election was rigged against them) to thinking that “there is no good reason for hidden trusts” (if the rich are not in need of financial protection/secrecy, why do government target the rich with the highest tax rates?), this interview is one lie after another.
    To the open minded, I recommend watching the recent Tucker Carlson interview which cites Anne (a video which originally brought me here). In that Tucker interview, you will find a far more robust and academically stimulating interview with literally 20x more views than this “interview”
    Final note: academia is dead. So sad.

    • @seansmith3058
      @seansmith3058 Месяц назад +2

      😂

    • @GSD-
      @GSD- Месяц назад

      @@seansmith3058 wow - such academic courage. Do you know how to read?

    • @seansmith3058
      @seansmith3058 Месяц назад +3

      @@GSD- I wish I didn't in your case. 🤣

    • @azalia423
      @azalia423 10 дней назад

      Netanyahu

  • @luisfernandezdecordoba5938
    @luisfernandezdecordoba5938 Месяц назад +2

    I kind of disagree with them. These governments are bad for sure, but if the US or Europe were in the same place they would do the same. The USA does not do great for their people. Cost of living is very high. Inequality, more people in jail than anywhere else...

  • @SeegerInstitute
    @SeegerInstitute 25 дней назад

    Everything you folks are talking about regarding the shortcomings of the Kleptocrats based out of the former iron curtain and former Marxist states holds true, but what’s your neglecting to say is it’s the failure of the American financial system, the inevitable concentration of wealth due to our current capital structure, which is causing our vulnerabilities in what is The west or the western sphere of influence if we were not so inherently flawed if there wasn’t such a large percentage of our population who is being left out of the discussion and if our own internal political system, we’re not as overly corrupt as it is, there would not be a question. But when you compare and contrast and clips with a corrupt inept obsolete crypto, which is what we’re working within there is room for discussion. If you’re left out of the financial situation and your living under a paradigm of scarcity and anxiety, you have no choice but to question other systems, especially if you’re, not educated and you’re essentially left out of the American dream. We should really get our own house in order that would be the best way of combating authoritarian narrates.

  • @susydyson1750
    @susydyson1750 2 месяца назад +2

    Nonsense !! Venezuelans now showed their strength !

  • @prajnachan333
    @prajnachan333 Месяц назад

    "Do want a neat and tidy, clean and inplace home, with a well-groomed yard surrounding the house.
    Or a house that is a mess, garbage everywhere. Nothing in place. With a yard that is a jungle, reflecting the chaos inside?
    Democracy mess
    Autocracy sharp
    Your "choice".

  • @cab5917
    @cab5917 Месяц назад

    It would be nice to use words that are not repeated like “transactional.” That does not explain the facts you are trying to relay to the general public. Not everyone has use of the English language with words like “transactional.”

  • @eaglewing1415
    @eaglewing1415 Месяц назад +1

    It was great until they showed their true colors with the insults on JD Vance.

  • @prajnachan333
    @prajnachan333 Месяц назад

    If everything was great in the country - we wouldn't need a savior, i.e., Donald Trump
    "To make it great Again"! 👍
    That's his whole game from the beginning.
    And only He can do it. (!)

  • @louisfifteen
    @louisfifteen 7 дней назад

    She never mentions israels genocide in Gaza
    I'm not a christian, but this bible quote fits her and her new book:
    How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' while there is still a beam in your own eye?
    You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

  • @rikkitikkiusa
    @rikkitikkiusa Месяц назад

    Disinformation, contradictions that Trump sure has mastered, etc.

  • @HasanRifino
    @HasanRifino 2 месяца назад +1

    🖐🕴

  • @alfredorezende-po8pg
    @alfredorezende-po8pg Месяц назад

    Hopes for someone to say something usiful

  • @RobinSingh-g1j
    @RobinSingh-g1j Месяц назад +1

    Ms. Applebaum is not acknowledging Project 2025 and seemed to sidestep Ms. Ghiat's point that the GOP is an authoritarian party. She seemed to avoid or ignore or preferred not to pursue that point. Her international assessment is spot on but not necessarily the US political parties.

    • @azalia423
      @azalia423 Месяц назад

      She's a deflection project.

  • @IExpectedBSJustNotThisMuchBS
    @IExpectedBSJustNotThisMuchBS Месяц назад +1

    Most disappointed in Applebaum's head girl or head teacher in a stuffy boarding school approach. Have enjoyed her in the past and now need to assess why... who was she with when I did? What was her expertise in relation to them? And so on. Most off putting. (I have a longer post about this.)

  • @marshalmaddening9011
    @marshalmaddening9011 Месяц назад

    RT was watchable , for me, mostly b/c of Chris Hedges. Is he someone we suspect of being a russian asset ?

  • @regal9242
    @regal9242 15 дней назад

    KHAZAR MAFIA

  • @anon-soso-anon
    @anon-soso-anon 2 месяца назад +4

    I'm unimpressed with Ruth; she's so clearly against the Republican party that she doesn't come across as objective. I'm glad Anne continually pushes back.

    • @biancapierce639
      @biancapierce639 2 месяца назад +5

      I had the polar opposite perspective - the good Republicans have been expelled from the party, or are too afraid to speak up for fear of retribution. The Repubulican party has become the party of Trump, it is no longer nuanced.

  • @Rnankn
    @Rnankn 2 месяца назад +3

    These two have lost the plot. Democracy is a process of collective decision-making. What they’re defending is liberal capitalism, against authoritarian capitalism. The inherent insecurity engendered by markets is what pushes them from their soft (liberal) variant, to hard (authoritarian) variant. The nationalist tendency toward external militarization and internal social cleansing occurs with the concentration of wealth and depletion of resources. Domination creates a perception of control, and this relieves anxiety. Authoritarianism can be democratically chosen, and democratic institutions can be authoritarian. The variable is economic, and capitalist societies are not self-legitimizing in the long-term. They self-sabotage through their own reliance on contingency and failure.

    • @PaoloMarinelli-sl2xu
      @PaoloMarinelli-sl2xu 2 месяца назад +4

      Authoritarism can be democratic is a "non sense" in my opinion. The democracy can be authoritarian is true (know the recent hystory) The problem is capitalism? I don't know, I think that is semplicistic explain.

    • @AllMagasGoToGitmo
      @AllMagasGoToGitmo 2 месяца назад

      Hitler only got 38% of the vote in 1933, it was the friekorps/brownshirts that consolidated power through physical intimidation and violence on the streets - much like MAGA today talking about how they have all the guns - so Maoism, basically - nothing democratic about being organized violent psychopaths, but it’s effective.
      Also that was really great how you started your dismissive comment with an ad hominem, I hope you’re still making your quota for the day.

    • @cestchill111
      @cestchill111 Месяц назад +1

      I fact, capitalism and democracy have different end goals, and inevitably cannot coexist, if left without regulation. They are juxtaposing terminology.

    • @Rnankn
      @Rnankn 17 дней назад

      @@cestchill111 Absolutely.

  • @MarciaMatthews
    @MarciaMatthews 2 месяца назад +4

    Please discuss the plight of women under gender ideology. Paris Olympic boxing, Australia refusing to define sex in law, USA headed down the same road.

    • @jeremyserwer2586
      @jeremyserwer2586 2 месяца назад +1

      Next thing you know dogs and cats will be living together!! Tell me what nightmare scenario you see unfolding?

    • @MarciaMatthews
      @MarciaMatthews 2 месяца назад

      @@jeremyserwer2586 Where ya been? Willfully ignorant of the harms of gender ideology. Children medicalized, women’s spaces and sports given away.

  • @Therecouldbehope
    @Therecouldbehope Месяц назад

    This is only for chics

  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie9551 2 месяца назад +2

    Aren't we all "Transactional" .
    Every concept we observe is measured up to fit into some aspect of our self awareness.
    When Scientists can't reach past their concrete mentality to evaluate parallel coexistence formality, they are setting themselves in the context of a Dictator who sells their business model of reverse-inverted conscience to the support team that wants that service.
    Eg why are lawyers identified as "Prostitutes of the Law"?
    When it's pointed out to the victim of dictatorial, misused administrative services and trust in the validity of the selected, legalised legitimacy..
    Technically, there is no such thing as "democracy", only temporary alliance to a preferred concept of self importance.

    • @萱-b6u
      @萱-b6u 2 месяца назад +4

      I think we all exchange stuff but autocratic countries have less trust between each other.

  • @hershchat
    @hershchat 2 месяца назад +2

    SHOCKING ignorance of the “global south”, which this unwell person needlessly derides. Please don’t waste your time with her book or words.

    • @johnstallings4049
      @johnstallings4049 2 месяца назад +6

      Best book 📖 I've read in years! #HarrisWalz2024

    • @azalia423
      @azalia423 Месяц назад

      She's a puppet.

    • @johnstallings4049
      @johnstallings4049 Месяц назад

      @@azalia423 1 sub & no content politically illiterate troll account lol 😶

  • @fern8580
    @fern8580 Месяц назад +1

    For my friends, whatever they want. For my enemies, the law»
    to my friends, everything; to my enemies, the law
    All understanding to my friends and the full weight of the law to my enemies
    Ramzan Kadyrov ( Chechen Republic), Xi Jinping( Republic of China), Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (russian empire Orthodox), Kim Jong Un (north korea ) .

  • @pluribus_unum
    @pluribus_unum 2 месяца назад +19

    🌈🇺🇸VOTE. DONATE. VOLUNTEER.🇺🇸🌊
    🇺🇸 Democracy is an action, not a gift. 🇺🇸

    • @BradHirsch-v9u
      @BradHirsch-v9u 2 месяца назад +8

      Vote Democratic! Voting republican or third party is very unhelpful.

    • @pluribus_unum
      @pluribus_unum 2 месяца назад +1

      @@BradHirsch-v9u - Spot on!

  • @zbigniewbaranowski9333
    @zbigniewbaranowski9333 Месяц назад

    Serdecznie pozdrawiam... 1:19

  • @caskade1
    @caskade1 27 дней назад

    Bunch of war hawks.