Thoughts?
Don’t agree with his assessment at all pretty much, but still interested what yous think about that stance, because really I’ve not seen much theory based discussion on the topic since the early days of the conflict.
Thoughts?
Don’t agree with his assessment at all pretty much, but still interested what yous think about that stance, because really I’ve not seen much theory based discussion on the topic since the early days of the conflict.
It’s important to keep in mind that Russia under Putin very much wanted to be part of the imperialist bloc and was denied. While they are allies to AES states and are a country of the periphery, they are in this geopolitical position not because of ideology, but because of circumstance.
I agree. My personal opinion on why Russia is antiimperialist is because of NATO aggression against Russia. I think Putin would have been more than happy to be a NATO imperialist ally. The problem was that Putin destroyed the crazy uncontrolled neoliberalism of Yeltsin, and actually served the russian bourgeoisie, not the american one. The west didnt like this, so they decided to do regime change and attack Russia. Putin was extremely patient with them, which is why he allowed several of his allies to be destroyed by the US (Iraq and Libya). He tried to appease the west. But the west never had enough. I think the breaking point was the imperialist aggression against Syria and Euromaidan in 2014. I think that after that Putin understood that there was no way he could be friends with NATO as he wanted to. So he was forced to look for allies to cope with western aggression. And he found them. China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc. The antiimperialist bloc was born.
yeah, he’s an anti imperialist out of circumstance, not ideology
my god the kids of the future are going to have some confusing ass history courses
Well its a bit like WW2. The allies (US, UK and France) became antifascist out of circumstance. They would have been more than happy to let Hitler destroy the USSR. But since Hitler attacked them first, they had to ally with the USSR in an antifascist coalition to protect themselves.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-putin-wanted-to-join-alliance-early-on-in-his-rule
Later events led Putin to reconsider.
Comrade you posted a Google AMP link. Here is the real link:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-putin-wanted-to-join-alliance-early-on-in-his-rule
True. It does seem that the Russian public is more on the anti-imperialist side, though (at least I hope so)
I think it has the western elite in a pickle, because the communist party there is the biggest opposition party and very popular. China with it’s system would be much harder to coup, and of course if the US wants to take down China they need to take down Russia first- but their chance to bring Putin and his party into the US imperialist bloc is gone, and the biggest opposition to said party is communists. Seems like the only options left are to break the Russia China alliance or to defeat them militarily before they get too strong.
Yeah, I’ve heard that the KPRF is very popular in many parts of the country (and some allegations that there was some manipulation to ensure that they didn’t win in specific regions, although I don’t remember where I read that so take that with approximately one and a half cups of salt). At this point, I think Amerika has shot itself in its foot so many times that it has disintegrated, and the China-Russia alliance seems stronger than ever
and that also leads to nothing but larger communist support, good for us
aagh I can’t tell what you wrote because almost every comment has disappeared for me in this thread, the Ghost of R*ddit is back