As a Russian, as a person with Ukrainian heritage, as a communist and as a human, I extend you and PCUSA a big genuine fuck you
I have couple of notes:
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As russia underwent capitalist restoration it follows all actions should be analyzed through a lens of previous inter imperial competition. It’s not soviet union or friend of working class anywhere.
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anti-fascist war implies russian motives are pure - they are not.
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in general little bit heavy on the rhetorical fascism analysis, not true nature of conflict or on the class side
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last paragraph is nice, and should have started analysis from there
A quibble on 1: it should be analyzed through a capitalist vs. capitalist lens. Trying to analyze it through an imperialist vs. imperialist lens seems to be muddying the waters for some people around here. Russia is a target of hegemonic imperialism and has a national monopolistic bourgeoisie, not one premised on the export of capital. It's difficult to understand their invasion of Ukraine as exporting capital. As a contrast, in Iraq, the US immediately set up a (horrific) privatization scheme premised on US multinationals owning and profiting from basic services.
It's not even that useful to think of it in terms of expansionism. NATO and its proxies were actively pushing Russia into a corner precisely because they maintain a national bourgeois monopoly system that closes routes for exported capital; Russia is not simply an aggressor, it is also reacting to aggression and the Ukrainian people are caught between this fight between major powers. I find it much more useful to think of this through the interplay of opposing forces moreso than each in isolation.
Russia also develops oil field in iraq ironically, under same extractivist umbrella, so it’s debatable.
As I think invasion doesn’t make any sense, outside of isolation and protection, one has to analyze working class conditions: for ukraine they became shittier, for russian one they became shittier. Thus this invasion is shit
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