Well for one, they can't until US Imperialism is crushed. Any organic movement in a US regime change target will be coopted by the US. They literally cannot be free until imperialism is stopped. They would just be trading one master for another, but this time it's a foreign master with insane military power. The only way to avoid this would be to have a very disciplined vanguard that has anti-americanism as one of it's core principles. An example would be if Hezbollah took power in Lebanon. They're by no means socialist but functionally they are a disciplined vanguard capable of withstanding imperialist treachery.
What you have going on in Belarus is an opposition that has essentially everything the US and EU wants as their platform but doesn't proclaim to be pro-EU or pro-US explicitly, only "pro-democracy". They're even trying to downplay their platform, acting as if it was just a suggestion and that it's not their main focus (it is), Democracy is (it isn't). They actually took their economic privatization and austerity plan down off their website because they don't want people to think "selling off state assets to create an oligarchy and imposing harsh austerity on the working class" when they think of the opposition lol.
(This is referring to the first paragraph, not the second. I'm convinced on Belarus - if the protesters want to sell off state-owned assets to oligarchs then they're bad)
No it doesn't because I actually listen to third world Communists. They want us to focus on Anti-imperialism, and opposing neoliberal color revolutions is part of being an anti-imperialist. To ignore them in favor of siding with the Imperialists interests is to be a chauvinistic "leftist" that thinks they know better than millions of Communists who have been at this for decades.
Well for one, they can't until US Imperialism is crushed. Any organic movement in a US regime change target will be coopted by the US. They literally cannot be free until imperialism is stopped. They would just be trading one master for another, but this time it's a foreign master with insane military power. The only way to avoid this would be to have a very disciplined vanguard that has anti-americanism as one of it's core principles. An example would be if Hezbollah took power in Lebanon. They're by no means socialist but functionally they are a disciplined vanguard capable of withstanding imperialist treachery.
What you have going on in Belarus is an opposition that has essentially everything the US and EU wants as their platform but doesn't proclaim to be pro-EU or pro-US explicitly, only "pro-democracy". They're even trying to downplay their platform, acting as if it was just a suggestion and that it's not their main focus (it is), Democracy is (it isn't). They actually took their economic privatization and austerity plan down off their website because they don't want people to think "selling off state assets to create an oligarchy and imposing harsh austerity on the working class" when they think of the opposition lol.
How does this not sound chauvinistic to you?
(This is referring to the first paragraph, not the second. I'm convinced on Belarus - if the protesters want to sell off state-owned assets to oligarchs then they're bad)
No it doesn't because I actually listen to third world Communists. They want us to focus on Anti-imperialism, and opposing neoliberal color revolutions is part of being an anti-imperialist. To ignore them in favor of siding with the Imperialists interests is to be a chauvinistic "leftist" that thinks they know better than millions of Communists who have been at this for decades.
Genuinely curious, which third world communists do you listen to?