Seems bad.
Here’s hoping Russia destroys the west before the contradictions destroy Russia.
What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1926/11/22.htm
Good read. Some of the intra party stuff was boring but important lessons in there.
countless reactionary forces tearing russia apart but you know who we really need to go after?
uh gay people
gay people are the real issue
god is dead the fall of the soviets killed him
Kapitalist, Konservative, Khristian = Russia since the 1990s.
May Allah destroy the Amerikan empire and this shambling Russian corpse in one strike.
The entire government's top is like this. The trans people ban, for example, entered Gosduma with, IIRC, over 300 people cited as authors (Gosduma has 450 people in it).
I really hope that over the years China-Russia partnership gets stronger and that Chinese acceptance of LGBT equality grows, such that one day Russian chud attitudes towards LGBT issues are squashed out of the state.
There has been some regression in China over the past few years that is worrying to me. Significantly more anti-Western and anti-LGBT sentiment (which are being bunched up together) that I’m noticing than in the 2000/2010s. Those were the times of a more liberal era.
Maybe as the west turns on LGBT people the anti-West sentiment will shift towards support for LGBT.
I believe that China's leadership is smart enough to see that the Chinese LGBTQ+ community is not their enemy and that if they grant them their rights, it will prevent them from being used by Westerners to push for destabilization by claiming that China is some kind of anti-LGBTQ+ nation, something they already do with Russia, Africa and the Middle East. When, more often than not, these countries only have strong anti-LGBTQ+ views because of Western interference. Also, Cuba has the most LGBTQ+ friendly laws in the world, and I think Vietnam is following suit too.
LGBTQ+ community is not their enemy and that if they grant them their rights, it will prevent them from being used by Westerners to push for destabilization
The
called this the "political misuse of homosexuals" and it was the reasoning the Stasi used to propose that the SED grant queer people rights and protections, which they then did in the mid 80's. If the socialist bloc hadn't fallen so shortly after, I 100% believe that attitude would've promulgated throughout the entire bloc eventually.100% believe that attitude would've promulgated throughout the entire bloc eventually.
I believe Hungary and Czechslovakia would eventually follow the GDR's example, maybe even the Soviet Union. But it would take long in more socially conservative countries like Poland and Albania.
I honestly don’t think the Chinese leadership cares, but then China is not run by a small group of people, you know.
One legit criticism against China is the censorship bureau, very likely run by a bunch of socially conservative boomers. There are very strict regulations about Chinese television shows and movies regarding politically and culturally sensitive subjects that you certainly cannot touch. There has been a lot of stories about Chinese film scripts being chopped to pieces and ended up as totally different stories from what the writers had originally intended. This is why you’ll never see anything like The Wire or Hollywood prestige television series with provocative social commentary coming out of China’s film industries.
So, yes, they still have certain influence over the cultural sphere in the country. And I doubt the leadership cares enough to intervene.
Cuba was once extremely homophobic but leadership accepted responsibility for its past and began moving forward even when gay rights were still contentious. It’s not impossible in this current era, and hopefully it accelerates as the boomers retire
Cuba also spent the last 50 years successfully resisting American imperialism and their influence, at the expense of getting materially sanctioned by almost the rest of the world.
It is no coincidence that Cuba and Vietnam, two of the recent countries that have made progress on LGBT rights, are also two of the very few countries in the world that had succeeded in resisting American imperialism.
For the rest of the world, it’s not as easy as you make it sound to free itself from Western imperialism. Even China.
It is only when your country has freed itself of foreign intervention that you can truly develop and progress as a society.
Without that, any progress will be set back immediately by the Western imperialists.
Afghanistan had a communist government that allowed women to go to school and take on professional jobs, you know? Do you know what happened to Afghanistan immediately after the communist government started to make progress?
Indonesia also once had a communist-aligned president whose vision was to create an independent non-aligned bloc, the Third World, that was supposed to be free from US and Soviet intervention, do you know what happened immediately to Indonesia when they started to make progress?
Same thing with Russia following the fall of the USSR. And many other countries that are too numerous to point out each and every single one of them. The point is that Western imperialism has had a heavy hand in stifling progress all over the world since the last century, and without resolving this principal contradiction (Western imperialism), it is difficult for humanity as a whole to move forward.
All of the Western military forces being made to defend Russia instead of Taiwan would be very funny (also awful tens of thousands would die at least).
they revoked their claims on the outer manchurian area
or somehow the material condition of living in the shadow of US forces Russia to gradually adopt socialist economic policy, because without economic planning, they don't have a good long-term chance of survival.
Radhika Desai recently hosted a webinar with some Russian intellectuals who claim that the foreign policy consensus in Russia changed drastically after Feb 2022. While Putin has always talked a big game against the West, they say, the state was still in practice trying to participate/cooperate with the West. Now they are fully giving up on that and looking to building up the "world majority" for long term strategy.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Russian Supreme KKKourt (I'm like desperate here, clearly Russia has figured out our ways and avoids all k's and c's).
(I'm like desperate here, clearly Russia has figured out our ways and avoids all k's and c's)
KKKlassic KKKremlin KKKountermeasure
Please remember to capitalize your double S's as required by the Maoist Standard English style guide.
When writing about Russia they may also be replaced with double Zs
Sorry, but that usage falls under the Liberal Standard English style and should be avoided.
in maoist standard english we call it $upreme KKKourt of tHHe RuSSiaꖦ Federadolftion
Just du the Nafo thing and call it the Ruzzian Zupreme Court. It stings because everybody knows that Z is the evil letter.
From the removed comments, they still do not understand that opposing weapons shipments to and combat training for openly neonazist groups in Ukraine or being against the rehabilitation of WW2-era nazi collaborators and the resurgence of aggressive anti-communism for the sake of war propaganda isn't the same as endorsing Russian interrior policy. That's a level of nuance these fundamentally silly people are not capable of - even when they appropriate anarchism, as the removed user we had in this thread did, they are ideologically neocons, and that means they fully operate under the
logic of "if you're not enthusiastically supporting any and all acts of imperialism the US is doing, you are automatically offering your full enthusiastic support for everybody the US is designating as its enemies." There is no other option with these people, it's always 100% black and white with them and every tidbit of information about Russia is a pretext for calls to join them in their baby brained understanding of geopolitics as the superbowl finals.It is also important to note how performative and hollow the support for queer people from these posters is - the removed user has several comments in their history where they also call out transphobia in the UK, but they see nothing wrong with calling dbzer0 their home, an instance that very regularly, and in fact just recently again, has transphobic and homophobic users stirring shit in threads on this site that discuss queer topics. Not giving somebody from that hellhole any benefit of the doubt.
