Pretty much now an argument between pro-Putin communists (Which sounds like a fucking oxymoron to me) and anti-Putin communists (which I thought was the fucking norm).
Pretty much now an argument between pro-Putin communists (Which sounds like a fucking oxymoron to me) and anti-Putin communists (which I thought was the fucking norm).
Here’s that one Trotsky quote I agree with:
The point is not that Putin is a communist. He is a liberal nationalist. But his nationalism is a self-defense against what imperialism did to his country under Yeltsin. Self-defensive nationalism, even when it’s liberal, is worth our support as a blow against capitalist imperialism.
That’s a pretty rad quote. So strange how trotsky vacillates between euro-centrism (“Revolution can only happen in western europe!”), and genuine anti-imperialist / national self-determination here.