How is it possible to be a marxist and say the most utterly deranged things possible? It’s simple. They’re not marxist.
Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia as a means of stabilizing capital at home and expanding its empire. The Russian Federation invaded Ukraine not with the intent of neocolonizing it or exploiting its (modest) resources, but as a last resort against the insatiable, creeping neoimperialism intent on eventually disintegrating Russia. They are not the same thing.
This is why I study Fascism. If the author were open to joining me, I’d invite them.
Their thought process is “anything I don’t like is fascism”
That’s what I get from a lot of maoists, not even from the internet.
In my experience they will label anything they don’t like as “social-imperialist”.
I’m still kinda surprised that trans comrades here support Russia (even if critically so)
That’s why it’s critical support. We certainly don’t support their bigoted policies, but we do support denazification and going against US/NATO imperialism.
What’s the difference between support and critical support?
We don’t say everything thing they ever do is good, we just uphold their position/actions on specific issues
So basically, it’s lesser-evilism but justified?
If lesser-evilism would also benefit the proletariat more overall than not, then yes. It would be. But lesser-evilism relies on the fact that you’re delaying the inevitable. Capitalism would eventually destroy quality of life.
Not with critical support. Russia, even if it is bigoted, will benefit the global proletariat more than not. That’s because Russia is fighting against a unipolar imperialist power, and destroying the grip of the western world would make revolutions and potential revolutions much easier.
Well turns out I have no choice but to support an oligarchy I suppose.
I would recommend you to read Stalin’s “Foundation of Leninism”, which is based on a cycle of lectures Stalin did in the 20’s. Especially relevant is the chapter 6, where Stalin explains exactly how that which we call “critical support” works.
If you ask me it beats the moral hand wringing about what systems are acceptable and what peoples are worthy of solidarity. You don’t have to be democraticly centralist socialists to gain whatever support I can offer and I dont expect to see a world full of homogeneous leninists when it is time to rest.
Aight
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I’m sorry, I’m sick of having my identity weaponized to manufacture consent for imperialism by liberals who don’t actually give a shit about trans rights in any meaningful way. My country and Russia are both systemically hostile to trans people. But the cultural superstructure won’t change unless we fundamentally attack the class base.
I feel like we can stop platforming this random dude. We get it, some dude with 200 followers has bad takes./nm
This post has like 1,000 likes. It got quite popular. I just see what I see on my TL and post it here. But yeah, I’ll try to find someone else lol
Ah
Gee, finally a solid argument!
Isn’t there a communist party in Russia? I know it’s not the ruling party but last time I checked it wasn’t outlawed like in other countries…
The Communist Party of Russia is reactionary and should be treated like any other conservative party. don’t forget the so-called Communists in the state duma voted in favour of the gay propaganda law and even pushed for further laws against non-traditional families.
one of the last deprogram with Hakim,Yugopnik and JT they invited a Russian Marxist to talk about this.
It was very interesting
Deez nuts
Yes, they’re one of the biggest parties. Their influence is actually what got Putin to recognize DPR and LPR and invade. They’d been asking for it since the Maidan coup.
Putting something in a meme format doesn’t make it true douchebag.
Calling someone who identifies with the ideology of Yugoslavia a Marxist seems a bit of a stretch
I’d disagree, Tito’s socialism with Balkan characteristics is definitely Marxist, though obviously not the best adaptation of Marxism with Market socialism. However, they don’t even claim that ideology, as they say they’re a Maoist and call “Yugoslavism” socialism with Yugoslavia’s current conditions.
Hoxha did multiple excellent pieces on the history, practice, and revisionism of the Tito-clique. It’s difficult to call them Marxist after everything he brings to light
Everyone was a revisionist to Hoxha. Crying wolf kind of makes the accusations lose potency fast.
