Yep, the communist movement in Russia is stronger than any other european country.
Other reasons would be: their close relationship with other BRI / BRICS countries, their exclusion from the spoils of western finance capital and semi-periphery status, antagonistic relationship with western europe / the US, massive popular support and nostalgia for the USSR.
Also, their growing relationship with China. Lots of cross pollination of policy and culture and politics.
Also, while the Soviet beaurocracy, for all its faults in ossification, while it has been largely stripped of its ideology in the surface it has remained calcified and as an obstruction to liberalizing forces. IIRC they still have several major industries that are nationalized that would be political suicide, both within the political class and with the Russian people, to privatize.
IIRC the largest communist party is and has been controlled opposition but there has been a strong undercurrent of genuine communists slowly growing over the last decade.
Problem is they have a growing Western-esque middle class hipster Synthetic Left too, we’ll see how that goes though. I have yet to see there be a country with a proper acknowledgement and clash between the synths and the communists, usually only one or the other exists, so it’d be a good conflict that could spread for example to the West where us Western communists could finally have a mainstream opportunity to differentiate ourselves from baby leftists in a positive way.
Lots of cross pollination of policy and culture and politics.
Admittedly I don’t live in the far East, where the contact with China actually happens, but I don’t see it here, west of Urals. Feel free to correct me.
but there has been a strong undercurrent of genuine communists slowly growing over the last decade.
And there has been a growing response to them from the government. AFAIK at least one communist organisation was forbidden from registration as a political party, because they honestly outlined their position in the program. The response was that since they are “openly calling for change of government” they fall under extremist definition. There’s a law, you see, makes calling for a government overthrow illegal. It’s been used to clamp down on fascists and some orgs that were probably pro-west liberals. But make no mistake - since socialism requires a revolution, this law will be used to clamp on communists too.
Well, I am an American, who are so famously good at knowing what they are talking about 😂😂😂 so I have to readily admit that I am merely going off of a different person’s allegedly living there’s perspective, it was a decent read but I don’t have any facts to really back my claims. You likely have much more information on this just being a resident so I’ll definitely take your word for it over my secondhand take; I have nothing to correct you with. And the second part too makes perfect sense.
Sorry if I’m speaking robotically I’m just really 🌲🌲🌲 while writing this, thank you for your response I would also like to hear more details from you as a resident if you would be down to share further takes on the matter, always down to learn from new sources
Yep, the communist movement in Russia is stronger than any other european country.
Other reasons would be: their close relationship with other BRI / BRICS countries, their exclusion from the spoils of western finance capital and semi-periphery status, antagonistic relationship with western europe / the US, massive popular support and nostalgia for the USSR.
EDIT: Read Shrike’s reply
Also, their growing relationship with China. Lots of cross pollination of policy and culture and politics.
Also, while the Soviet beaurocracy, for all its faults in ossification, while it has been largely stripped of its ideology in the surface it has remained calcified and as an obstruction to liberalizing forces. IIRC they still have several major industries that are nationalized that would be political suicide, both within the political class and with the Russian people, to privatize.
IIRC the largest communist party is and has been controlled opposition but there has been a strong undercurrent of genuine communists slowly growing over the last decade.
Problem is they have a growing Western-esque middle class hipster Synthetic Left too, we’ll see how that goes though. I have yet to see there be a country with a proper acknowledgement and clash between the synths and the communists, usually only one or the other exists, so it’d be a good conflict that could spread for example to the West where us Western communists could finally have a mainstream opportunity to differentiate ourselves from baby leftists in a positive way.
Admittedly I don’t live in the far East, where the contact with China actually happens, but I don’t see it here, west of Urals. Feel free to correct me.
And there has been a growing response to them from the government. AFAIK at least one communist organisation was forbidden from registration as a political party, because they honestly outlined their position in the program. The response was that since they are “openly calling for change of government” they fall under extremist definition. There’s a law, you see, makes calling for a government overthrow illegal. It’s been used to clamp down on fascists and some orgs that were probably pro-west liberals. But make no mistake - since socialism requires a revolution, this law will be used to clamp on communists too.
Well, I am an American, who are so famously good at knowing what they are talking about 😂😂😂 so I have to readily admit that I am merely going off of a different person’s allegedly living there’s perspective, it was a decent read but I don’t have any facts to really back my claims. You likely have much more information on this just being a resident so I’ll definitely take your word for it over my secondhand take; I have nothing to correct you with. And the second part too makes perfect sense.
Sorry if I’m speaking robotically I’m just really 🌲🌲🌲 while writing this, thank you for your response I would also like to hear more details from you as a resident if you would be down to share further takes on the matter, always down to learn from new sources
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