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KPRF is the old-school Marxist-Leninist communist party and the one which is most principled anti-imperialist. It’s also by far the biggest one, in fact it’s the second biggest political force in Russia behind Putin’s liberal United Russia party.
The other “communist parties” that exist in Russia are insignificant fringe groups of Trotskyists and ultra-leftists who hate Putin so much that they would rather side with the imperialists and help them destroy Russia thinking they can do another revolution after this government is toppled kind of like Trotskyists thought that they could have a second revolution if Stalin was defeated by the Nazis. It is no coincidence that some of them are outright funded by the West…
The KPRF are not old school Marxist Leninists. They are liberal shills and at best a controlled opposition party. They bend to every one of Putin’s whims, (minus a few pointless disagreements for appearances).
Their leaders receive absurd funding and “gifts” from United Russia, and the higher leadership is so corrupt you would have thought you were in American Congress.
I just wonder how United Russia works? Yeah that’s totally I have observed. There are “leftists” in Russia who were cheering for the bombing of Kerch bridge and who thinks Russia is an imperialist state. Not that I know KPRF that much but it seems they have conservative social views (it’s not so much different than in Pakistan/India and many parties in Africa and middle East). Regarding SMO and others, I think they should have their own viewpoint and we shouldn’t think it as a similar situation like in Iraq and Afghanistan. KPRF is a coherent party and not some anarchist masturbating for Azov.
There are a ton of genuine and principled communist parties around the world especially in the global south which hold on to at least some social conservative lines. We need to accept that contradictions like this are a fact of life, it is to be expected that many communist parties, at least those that are not astroturfed from the outside, will in some way reflect the dominant social mores and attitudes of their country. After all, their members come from the general population, they are not above them but part of the people and will share some of the same prejudices inculcated in them by their upbringing.
Of course we would like to see their attitude change in a more progressive direction but this is not something that we have the power to enforce on them, and to attempt to do so would be viewed as cultural imperialism. They need to come to the right conclusions on their own. In the meantime we must not allow such secondary contradictions to be exploited to break our international solidarity with them, or indeed with most other forces that share our principled opposition to imperialism. Imperialism and not social conservatism is the primary contradiction of our time and the main obstacle to socialism.
Yeah thats totally my view , even I don’t like some aspects of LGBT movement of the west . Eastern culture should have its own thought and progressive movement and it can’t be enforced from outside . You can’t tell Pakistani comrades to abandon their religion before coming to world conference of commies , also Eastern society functions in a more different way , openly kissing and nudism is strictly prohibited you can’t do parades like in the west .
As for United Russia, i am not the most knowledgeable on this subject, but from what i know it’s basically a big tent party with no real unifying idea apart from being a platform for the current political establishment which is all about stability and status quo. They have largely managed to absorb virtually the entire center of the political ideological spectrum leaving only the communists, the western funded liberals, and the few truly far right Nazi types that exist in Russia (and this last group frequently enters into alliances of convenience with the astroturfed liberal opposition; the poster child for this type of collaboration is of course Navalny) still remaining outside of it.
Someone remind me which party isn’t the mainly opportunist one?
KPRF is the old-school Marxist-Leninist communist party and the one which is most principled anti-imperialist. It’s also by far the biggest one, in fact it’s the second biggest political force in Russia behind Putin’s liberal United Russia party.
The other “communist parties” that exist in Russia are insignificant fringe groups of Trotskyists and ultra-leftists who hate Putin so much that they would rather side with the imperialists and help them destroy Russia thinking they can do another revolution after this government is toppled kind of like Trotskyists thought that they could have a second revolution if Stalin was defeated by the Nazis. It is no coincidence that some of them are outright funded by the West…
The KPRF are not old school Marxist Leninists. They are liberal shills and at best a controlled opposition party. They bend to every one of Putin’s whims, (minus a few pointless disagreements for appearances).
Their leaders receive absurd funding and “gifts” from United Russia, and the higher leadership is so corrupt you would have thought you were in American Congress.
I just wonder how United Russia works? Yeah that’s totally I have observed. There are “leftists” in Russia who were cheering for the bombing of Kerch bridge and who thinks Russia is an imperialist state. Not that I know KPRF that much but it seems they have conservative social views (it’s not so much different than in Pakistan/India and many parties in Africa and middle East). Regarding SMO and others, I think they should have their own viewpoint and we shouldn’t think it as a similar situation like in Iraq and Afghanistan. KPRF is a coherent party and not some anarchist masturbating for Azov.
There are a ton of genuine and principled communist parties around the world especially in the global south which hold on to at least some social conservative lines. We need to accept that contradictions like this are a fact of life, it is to be expected that many communist parties, at least those that are not astroturfed from the outside, will in some way reflect the dominant social mores and attitudes of their country. After all, their members come from the general population, they are not above them but part of the people and will share some of the same prejudices inculcated in them by their upbringing.
Of course we would like to see their attitude change in a more progressive direction but this is not something that we have the power to enforce on them, and to attempt to do so would be viewed as cultural imperialism. They need to come to the right conclusions on their own. In the meantime we must not allow such secondary contradictions to be exploited to break our international solidarity with them, or indeed with most other forces that share our principled opposition to imperialism. Imperialism and not social conservatism is the primary contradiction of our time and the main obstacle to socialism.
Yeah thats totally my view , even I don’t like some aspects of LGBT movement of the west . Eastern culture should have its own thought and progressive movement and it can’t be enforced from outside . You can’t tell Pakistani comrades to abandon their religion before coming to world conference of commies , also Eastern society functions in a more different way , openly kissing and nudism is strictly prohibited you can’t do parades like in the west .
As for United Russia, i am not the most knowledgeable on this subject, but from what i know it’s basically a big tent party with no real unifying idea apart from being a platform for the current political establishment which is all about stability and status quo. They have largely managed to absorb virtually the entire center of the political ideological spectrum leaving only the communists, the western funded liberals, and the few truly far right Nazi types that exist in Russia (and this last group frequently enters into alliances of convenience with the astroturfed liberal opposition; the poster child for this type of collaboration is of course Navalny) still remaining outside of it.