cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7701162
I want to ask here too if that’s ok. Still not 100% sure how federation works but would like to get a bigger audience for more viewpoints.
I would love to hear the thoughts of this leftist community, not least any comrade in Russia. In the US it’s so hard to get any serious Russia news/analysis because of the propaganda here- you have red guys that love Russia & Putin to own the libs, and you have blue guys that hate Russia & Putin because it’s their favorite boogeyman. I ask because I personally don’t like Putin for his war on gayness (wake me up when we get to war of gayness) but I understand that countries in the US’s crosshairs are those that make their history under the least self-selected circumstances. I was looking at some stats when this question came to mind:
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So material conditions have definitely improved under Putin, which is a miracle considering the fall of the USSR and the disgrace of Yeltsin, which makes me think there are probably people out there who like Putin for rational reasons, besides owning the libs. I would love to hear your thoughts either way.
“Staying stable” is the important part there. I would fully expect that a communist vanguard would be anti-imperialist, probably more so than the current leadership. However, the question of transition is important and if done carelessly, the west could take advantage of any resulting chaos to try to foment separatism and civil war and the like, especially while a war is ongoing.
Does that make sense?
Okay sure, the present moment is not ripe for revolutionary defeatism, which the CPRF probably understands; not that they’re in a position to mount one right now.
Right and if it came across at all like I thought they didn’t understand that, to be clear, I was speaking to what I thought was a viewpoint they would be in agreement with. But I may have not conveyed it in the best way.