Indeed we should be against both Zelensky and Putin, but they are not the same and we cannot and should not have a neutral position on this war because it is the pivot upon which the world is turning from US unipolar hegemony to multipolarity. Moreover it is a just struggle against NATO imperialist encroachment and for the liberation of an oppressed people from genocidal fascism.
There is a reason why the Russian communists overwhelmingly support the intervention in Ukraine and why they pushed for it more than almost any other group years before the bourgeois liberal government of Putin finally was forced to launch it. There is a reason why so much of the global south either explicitly or tacitly supports Russia in this conflict.
I understand that for those unfamiliar with the full context of the situation and looking only superficially at it seeing two bourgeois states fighting it may not seem like something that communists should support. But if you look both at the bigger picture AND at what has been happening locally in Ukraine and specifically in the Donbass since 2014, you will see it in a totally different light.
Listen to or read some interviews with people on the ground from the Donbass republics who were bombed for eight years, or with the Ukrainian communists who have been severely persecuted and seen their comrades arrested, imprisoned, tortured and murdered, then reconsider whether you really think that Russia should not have intervened to put an end to this fascist regime.
I uphold the referendums and I believe that Doneck, Lugansk, and Zaporožie are a rightful part of Russia, but I don’t support the Russian government or military.
That is a somewhat contradictory position, no? Who else if not the Russian military is going to ensure that those regions are fully liberated and integrated into Russia? Was it not this government under which the regions were formally re-incorporated?
As i said you needn’t have a blanket support of the Russian government, i don’t either, as no communist should. But we can support individual actions and policies while opposing others. Critical support in certain contexts while remaining aware of the nature of this government and that we ultimately would like to see it replaced with a progressive and socialist one.
Indeed we should be against both Zelensky and Putin, but they are not the same and we cannot and should not have a neutral position on this war because it is the pivot upon which the world is turning from US unipolar hegemony to multipolarity. Moreover it is a just struggle against NATO imperialist encroachment and for the liberation of an oppressed people from genocidal fascism.
There is a reason why the Russian communists overwhelmingly support the intervention in Ukraine and why they pushed for it more than almost any other group years before the bourgeois liberal government of Putin finally was forced to launch it. There is a reason why so much of the global south either explicitly or tacitly supports Russia in this conflict.
I understand that for those unfamiliar with the full context of the situation and looking only superficially at it seeing two bourgeois states fighting it may not seem like something that communists should support. But if you look both at the bigger picture AND at what has been happening locally in Ukraine and specifically in the Donbass since 2014, you will see it in a totally different light.
Listen to or read some interviews with people on the ground from the Donbass republics who were bombed for eight years, or with the Ukrainian communists who have been severely persecuted and seen their comrades arrested, imprisoned, tortured and murdered, then reconsider whether you really think that Russia should not have intervened to put an end to this fascist regime.
I uphold the referendums and I believe that Doneck, Lugansk, and Zaporožie are a rightful part of Russia, but I don’t support the Russian government or military.
That is a somewhat contradictory position, no? Who else if not the Russian military is going to ensure that those regions are fully liberated and integrated into Russia? Was it not this government under which the regions were formally re-incorporated?
As i said you needn’t have a blanket support of the Russian government, i don’t either, as no communist should. But we can support individual actions and policies while opposing others. Critical support in certain contexts while remaining aware of the nature of this government and that we ultimately would like to see it replaced with a progressive and socialist one.