With Putin talking about the orthodox church being holy and using to justify some conservative bullshit, all I can remember was the bolsheviks going around the country proudly declaring that cities were now "officially godless" and redistributing the church's gold amongst the people and using it to pay for electrification projects.

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Cause a lot of leftists are generally anti-West too, and only have the perspective of living in the West, and may think that situation there is the worst or something like that. I think its not that leftists in general support Putin, as they dont like his opponents. Instead of disliking both.

    • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago
      • Genuine anti-imperialism leads to critical support for anyone who stands up to imperialists
      • Critical support leads to ironic uncritical support on the internet
      • Ironic uncritical support gets laundered through the internet enough times to confuse some people into genuine support