A court in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod has jailed a woman for wearing rainbow earrings, the human rights group Egida reported late Wednesday, marking the second case of its kind after Russia banned the so-called “LGBT movement” as an “extremist” organization in November.   According to Egida, law enforcement agents tasked with combating “extremism” detained the woman after a group of “aggressive people” approached her and her friend at a local cafe and filmed them on camera.

ngl russia is not making it easy to give critical support lol

  • WithoutFurtherBelay
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    11 months ago

    Yeah this is definitely a reactionary imperialist rag, but I don’t think we have to say stuff like this is good to practice revolutionary defeatism. It might seem pointless to say stuff like this is bad, then, but believe it or not there are ways solidarity benefits people internationally that aren’t as justifications for violent imperialism

    • HeavenAndEarth [she/her]
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      11 months ago

      Are we sure that a revolutionary strategy developed in the context of WWI is relevant in 2024?

      Anyone who would in all earnest refute the “slogan” of defeat for one’s own government in the imperialist war should prove one of three things: (1) that the war of 1914-15 is not reactionary, or (2) that a revolution stemming from that war is impossible, or (3) that co-ordination and mutual aid are possible between revolutionary movements in all the belligerent countries.

      -The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War

      Like, I don't think 2 or 3 are currently possible in the Russia Ukraine war, or most of the ongoing conflicts for that matter.

      • WithoutFurtherBelay
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        11 months ago

        Well, you could argue a revolution will “stem” from the Ukraine-Russia conflict because it weakens the extremely counter-revolutionary US, and it is indeed impossible or extremely difficult for there to be any sort of mutual aid and cooperation between the two country’s working class movements, because of sanctions. Finally, it is a very reactionary war in general, literally headed by Nazis on one side and one of the people who helped collapse the USSR on the other, so this is seeming like a textbook case of proper use of revolutionary defeatism to me.