Whether you view Russia’s decision a year ago to intervene in Ukraine as correct from an anti-imperialist perspective depends on which metric you’re using in your strategic calculus. When one is only looking at the events from inside the imperialist benefactor countries, and the eastern European cou...
"Z's Impact is positive"
"Z is historically progressive"
That's so fucking ridiculous. The author should be ashamed. What Z is doing is classic imperialism. Russia felt like they had the right to invade a sovereign country simply because they wanted more cooperation with the west. So much life has been lost on both sides because of the fascistic rule of Vladimir Putin. Anyone that views him or this war positively is a disgusting fascist or too ignorant to look past Russian propaganda. Both are equally awful as they serve the same outcome - more death, more imperialism, more fascism.
If any leftists feel an attachment to Russia because of the USSR, then stop. Russia is NOT the USSR, they're not a socialist country, they're not even remotely leftist. They are a capitalist oligarchy of fat-cat monopolizers. Their economy runs on oil exports that are killing the planet.
Over a year into this conflict, you'd think it'd be obvious to everyone what's going on. Delusional shit like this article should be heavily criticized at every opportunity.
You're too funny. I'm literally more left wing than you are. I don't support imperialist invasions of countries. I don't support sending the proletariat to start a war in the name of a single man with an (up until recently) iron grip on his country.
Even if I were a liberal, I'd rather be a lib than a fascist. I hope you come around to see how wrong this war is someday. I doubt you're a bad person, but you've certainly been mislead.
There is nothing Marxist that is or will ever come of the current Russian regime whether by design or byproduct. I still can’t believe this vein of thinking exists in modern communist thought. No safe space for any propaganda that supports the fascist Putin or his genocidal actions in Ukraine. Fuck everything about this.
Ok. What have you done to weaken US hegemony, then? If we don't need Russia surely there is a much better marxist alternative already militarily weakening the US, right? Because if so I'm happy to drop all support for Putin.
I would absolutely love it if the communist party of russia (putin's only relevant opposition) managed to pull of a coup, but until that happens we work with what we got.
I understand why comrades feel compelled to support either side but there is no value in ripping each other apart as all sides in this conflict actively support the oppression of the working class.
There is value in discussing how to best deal with the situation that, as horrible as it is, exists.
As the socialist perspective is inherently internationalist it is important not to miss the global upheavals that are also taking place and that this war to a degree is embedded in.