Edit: apparently this dude is calls himself a communist and stated the he expects Putin to bring Socialism to ukraine, which is still liberalism albeit a different liberalism than I thought when I posted so.

  • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    from what I can tell, Russian communist parties get weird. Dude seems pretty serious about his beliefs but he seems to have become infected with whatever weird brainworms their communist parties have. He mentioned something called "Essence of Time" which is what the communist unit he fights in adheres to and from what little is available about it in English it's some extremely weird USSR nostalgia thing mixed with anti neoliberalism, anti globalism, nationalism and anti LGBT :cringe:

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      EoT are a weird bunch. They are trying to synthesise Orthodox Christianity with Marxism in a way that seems to be legitimately working at reaching a shitload of people but at the same time is incredibly difficult to wrap your head around.

      It's not exactly nazbol because they're definitely not looking to build ethno states or exterminate people and don't have any of the racial ideology but it's the kind of fucky thing that looks like them until you dig deeper and realise it's just mega brainwormy.

      Anyway they've been fighting in Donbas for 8 years and have tens of thousands of followers so like I don't know what to say too much, they seem to understand their specific fucked up post soviet conditions in some way that successfully connects with people but I don't know if they really have the theory in leadership and it's hard to dig through all the russian language stuff and figure out whether they do or not.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        New type of Orthodox Marxism dropped.

        Seriously, I no longer know what's a TNO meme or not anymore because that sounds basically like the Siberian Faction.

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            I've no doubt they are, looking forward to an Orthodox liberation theology movement. :jesus-cleanse:

      • krammaskin [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Would be interesting to see what Matt Christman would think of it since he has been talking plenty about how ideology need a religious dimension

      • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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        2 years ago

        FYI they were founded by a mathematician/theater director. So they’re like the most Russian political group ever.

    • riley
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      8 months ago

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      • D61 [any]
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        2 years ago

        :rat-salute:

        Thank you for your service.