Be very of these false narratives which seek to bend the framework of reality towards a position in accord with the US Empire.
This is not “a conflict between two bourgeois countries”. This is an abstract, undialectical analysis.
It is adapting the framework of Western Imperialists.
This is a complex conflict decades in the making, at it’s core, it is a war between Russia and the Blood Empire.
The Ukrainian people are being used as a weapon by their bloodthirsty American masters.
I hope people here see how deceptive and devious this “both sides bad capitalists” narrative is.
It is poisonous to us communist communities, and it shows that western propaganda is very much able to spread on GenZedong.
Do not allow them to infiltrate our minds.
Godspeed comrades. o7
The 2nd largest political party in Japan is communist too, you gonna tell me its not imperial core?
You really think communists in Russia are gonna take power through elections? I didn’t realizes this was GenZeDemocraticSocialists, my mistake.
I’m not against the war, I even said Russia is acting as a progressive force in this moment. All I’m saying is that the Russian national bourgeois do not care about concepts like self determination, they care about expanding their power. This is why it took so long for Russia to finally intervene. It saw a threat to itself and acted, Russia didn’t care about Nazi Ukraine while the people of the DPR and LPR were getting bombed for 8 years straight, if the situation continued as it was Russia wouldn’t have gotten involved. Only when an actual threat to Russia emerged did it intervene.
No it isn’t, its not even in the top 5 political parties in Japan. Also the JCP is basically a socdem party… its about as “communist” as the eurocommunist or the french socialist party. They even consider China imperialist. Compare that with the KPRF which carries the legacy and ideals of the fully functioning RSDLP, IE the party of Lenin and the Bolsheviks.
Japan is 100% in the imperial core: its an OECD nation, and along with Germany it was one of the main nations the US built up to be anti-communist bulwarks after WW2. Compare that with Russia, which is not in the imperial core and does not receive the benefits of unequal exchange.
Not all nationalisms are equal. The nationalism of a Russia, Iran, or Venezuala has a genuinely progressive character. And Russia has not been completely standing on the sidelines w/ regard to the Donbass, or Crimea. They’ve helped them in the past, with weapons and via a proxy war (just like Ukraine was doing, except they were arming right-wing paramilitaries) and are helping the republics now. Maybe not up to your standards, but that’s a decision for them to make when they decide to do overt military action, if at all.
I’m boggled at how your comment got even a single upvote, anyone can easily fact check your claims.
I agree that the JCP is basically succdem, but they are the largest none ruling communist party in the world. Revisionist yes, but still technically a communist party.
The party of Lenin and the Bolsheviks? We all know the USSR went extremely revisionist. The same party that let Gorby into power? The party of Breznhev and Kruschev? They are closer to the modern day than Lenin is. I’m not saying the party can’t change mind you, maybe they fixed their revisionism, in fact I find it likely they did. However empty phrases on how its the party of Lenin is ridiculous and not a real argument.
I agree Japan is imperial core. You’re right that Russia is not imperial core, but there can be more than 1 imperialist power at a time. That is what caused WW1. This is why I specify Russia as a small imperialist.
You are also correct that not all nationalism is equal. I never said anything about Russian nationalism as I don’t know enough about it in particular to have an opinion.
You are right that its their choice how they use (or not) their military. However to just ignore their actions instead of analyzing what it means is important. Each action made has a purpose, including the choice to be inactive. They chose to be inactive. They only took action when it became a threat to them, this is reasonable, you cannot expect anything more, however it also shows that their reasons are out of self interest. Out of securing resources for themselves.
CPRF is a bourgeoisie party. A decent number of low-ranking/local area members are active when it comes to social issues, but they’re being repressed by police and boomers at top like Zuyganov are happy to purge members who don’t subscribe to only voting in parliament where United Russia has 3/4 of places anyway.
What made RSDLP a revolutionary force was that they’ve represented the working class and peasantry which has already started self organizing and building dual power. Bolsheviks (but also other parties like mensheviks and SRs) have acted as a vanguard of a revolutionary mass movement, but not made it happen on their own. There can’t be new RSDLP until class consciousness gets high enough to fuel the revolutionary wave, meaning that CPRF can’t be a revolutionary party of a working class just because there are no material conditions for it to exist. But also it’s not acting to spread class consciousness or organize the working masses like Bolsheviks did, nor really organizing theory study groups to build up revolutionary vanguard. I would classify it as left-populist or maybe even USSR-populist (using vague Soviet nostalgia and themes without any class character), and they’re only allowed to exist because they’re no threat to the bourgeoisie class.
That sucks, I’ve only heard good things about the CPRF. In this case it is basically equivalent to the JCP in terms of being communist in name but succdem/bourgeois in practice.