cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/14176
The International Relations Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has condemned the decision of the Russian authorities to sentence members of a Marxist study group to prison terms ranging from 16 to 22 years, warning against the criminalization of communist ideology and political struggle.
More specifically, the statement, published in 902 portal, reads:
“The decision of the Russian authorities to impose prison sentences of 16 to 22 years on members of a Marxist study group—based on the absurd yet dangerous ‘expert opinion’ of an appointed committee that characterized Lenin’s State and Revolution as a ‘terrorism manual’—is utterly unacceptable and exposes the anti-communist and anti-democratic degeneration of bourgeois power in Russia.
The reliance of the Russian bourgeois judiciary on a lexicographical interpretation of the word ‘revolution,’ and the classification of the ‘ideology of socialism,’ ‘power to the Soviets,’ and the ‘establishment of Soviet power’ as ‘extremist ideology,’ in order to substantiate the alleged ‘violent nature of changing the fundamental principles of the existing regime,’ reveals a ruthless attempt to smear revolution and socialism. At the same time, it aims to suppress even the most minimal political activity that challenges the choices of the bourgeois class and struggles for the overthrow of capitalist barbarism.
This court ruling represents yet another link in the anti-communist chain employed by the Russian bourgeoisie. Notable examples include the hosting of an international fascist gathering—with the participation of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn—the operation of a political school at a public university dedicated to the Russian fascist philosopher Ivan Ilyin, and the anti-Soviet and anti-communist arguments used by Vladimir Putin to justify the unacceptable Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. That invasion marked the formal beginning of the ongoing imperialist war, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people from Ukraine and Russia—primarily from poor working-class backgrounds—in the interests of capital.
The KKE condemns this unacceptable verdict in the strongest terms. It is consistent with similar anti-communist trials and bans in Ukraine, more recently in Poland against the Communist Party of Poland, as well as with the ‘week against communism’ proclaimed by Donald Trump. These developments demonstrate that anti-communism is not an exclusive instrument of the Euro-Atlantic imperialist bloc, but can also be deployed by capitalist Russia whenever deemed necessary by bourgeois power. At the same time, Russia’s leadership falsely claims to be waging an ‘anti-fascist war’ and seeks every 9th of May to appropriate the Anti-Fascist Victory of the USSR and the resistance movements over Nazism—a product of capitalism itself.
We demand the immediate release of the convicted members of the Marxist study group and an end to anti-communist political persecution.
Hands off the communists.”
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unacceptable Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022
formal beginning of the ongoing imperialist war
similar anti-communist trials and bans in Ukraine
primarily from poor working-class backgrounds
So, are they supporting banderite nazi government and their ethnic cleansing of Donbas or all this is just said from the ivory tower of forever untouchable moral purity? Obligatory reminder that Ukrainian communists do support the Russian intervention, and that you can condemn opression of communists in Russia without deciding that Ukraine should just massacre Donbas workers unopposed.
So, are they supporting banderite nazi government and their ethnic cleansing of Donbas or all this is just said from the ivory tower of forever untouchable moral purity? Obligatory reminder that Ukrainian communists do support the Russian intervention, and that you can condemn opression of communists in Russia without deciding that Ukraine should just massacre Donbas workers unopposed.
The KKE is weird for having weird and sometimes reactionary takes. From what I know they don’t like China and are pretty homophobic. Also to self-crit here my org is also a bit guilty of the latter, even though we have one single document on our website where we say “LGBTQ discrimination bad actually” so we’re still kind of on the fence. Am from the Balkans btw.
I know this will sound like I’m pulling out my ass so take this with a grain of salt. Got told from a communist Russian comrade, also they are one of the lower ranking members of the CPRF, that they were honey potted essentially into adventurism from what he found out.
KKE has been leading the primary split among marxist-leninists since 2022. They have no problem fomenting factionalism in parties that don’t cowtow to their “correct” opinions, nor do they have any problem “comradely” forming factional blocs with other communist parties in the ICMWP to publicly isolate and attack other communist parties in the ICMWP, nor do they have any problem using their “unbiased” ‘in defense of communism’ mouthpiece to push their ass-splintered fence-sitting moralizing to the point they’ll grasp literal straws in the form of pushing a no-member Potemkin village of a ‘communist’ party in ukraine as “proof” that a majority of ukraine’s underground communists agree with their shitass take.
I do not like them very much. I can respect them for at least putting their money where their mouth is in trying to disrupt any nato activity in their country, but they’re chauvinistic paternalists who’ve falled deep in the hole of commandism of other countries parties. They’re of the belief they are the vanguard of the vanguard.
First, the KKE’s new theory of the ‘imperialist pyramid’ [4] bases itself on the incorrect assertion that every economy in which trade takes place and commodities are produced is a capitalist economy.
Indistinguishable from the clueless reddit liberal position. Easily disproven with the obvious questions of when commodities began to be produced and when capitalism came to be. This is just “capitalism = markets” nonsense.
OK, I made it two more paragraphs and had to quit. Completely laughable, childish “theory”.
Argh, psychic damage recieved
The Russian oligarchy felt it was winning too many battles against the west for its comfort, so it reverted to it’s base programming of anti-communist purging
