First of all, I just want this war to end. I don’t support Russia, or Ukraine. (this should not be that hot of a take but here we are) The whole sUpPoRt rUsSiA stuff is stupid, considering that Russia is yet another capitalist country that, while it is anti-USA, is just trying to be a competing bourgeois imperialist country. Russia is not “anti-imperialist”, Russia is just lesser imperialist. This is not “ultra-left”, this is the correct Marxist path. “Ultra-left” would be saying that China is capitalist. People who say that “Xi Jinping supports Russia because he talked with Putin” are also dumb because Xi Jinping talked with Zelenśkyj too, and he definitely does NOT support Ukraine. Also, there a bunch of Wagner supporters here, and do I even have to go into detail about why supporting LITERAL mercenaries is stupid? The only correct solution is to end the war immediately. Russia is not the 2nd coming of the USSR and is more akin to WW2 Britain than WW2 USSR. Putin is not another Stalin, Putin is Russian Churchill. This right-deviationist line here needs to end and Lemmygrad has to return to a principled Marxist line. Also, Pušilin is transphobic and has also given awards to literal Nazis, so supporting Pušilin over Zelenśkyj is just stupid. They both suck, and peace is the only way out.

  • JoeMarx 193
    10•1 year ago

    >[Russia] is just trying to be a competing bourgeois imperialist country.

    Let’s start

    Lenin’s criteria.

    1. highly developed capital concentration enough to create monopolies decisive to economic life;
    2. bank capital and industrial capital become so entwined they end up making an oligarchy;
    3. exporting capital is becomes extremely important;
    4. associations specifically to preserve monopolist capitalism’s fiefdoms of the world;
    5. the world is now split between the biggest capitalist powers

    Russia doesn’t meet 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 iirc.

    Rest is ok though

    • The Free PenguinOP
      -10•1 year ago

      even though russia at the moment isn’t acting imperialist to the 3rd world, capital in that country has developed to a point where Russia is becoming one of the capitalist superpowers in the multipolar world.