shamelessly taken from /r shitliberalssay for the glorious bear shape chat
It's hilarious how these idiots still are calling Russia 'communist'. The country was literally turned into a capitalist wild wild west in the 90s after the fall of the USSR.
Over 30% of all wealth in Russia is owned by just 110 billionaires. There is massive corruption there with the billionaire class and corporations because everything was completely unregulated.
There is an argument to be had that America is becoming like Russia in the way that our jobs and industrial field of work have been slowly disappearing since the 1980s when everything began getting deregulated and job manufacturers moving factories overseas. Outside of the east coast and big cities, there are little to no jobs out there that don't revolve around minimum wage (Walmarts, or like in the rural south where there is a dollar store on every corner) or eventually finding your way in the war industry or working at a prison as a correctional officer. It's similar to Russia, where they have lost all their manufacturing jobs after the USSR fell and the capitalist system has simply allowed large areas of their country to rot away in despair and poverty. Outside of Moscow and the big cities, Russia struggles with jobs.
Love too use a jpg of text as a source, why yes I'm a congressional candidate how could you tell
lmao "First, the Democratic Party is traditionally closer to the so-called liberal values, closer to Social Democratic ideas, if compared to Europe. And it was from the Social Democratic environment that the Communist Party evolved."
In reality, you should read the entire passage for context. IMO, he says that Democrats are to the left of current republicans.
After all, I was a member of the Soviet Communist Party for nearly 20 years, or more precisely 18 years. I was a rank-and-file member, but it can be said that I believed in the party’s ideas. I still like many of these left-wing values. Equality and fraternity. What is bad about them?
Wow, I didn’t know Putin ever spoke in nostalgic or positive terms about the communist party (even if it’s disingenuous). That part further down about Angela Davis is interesting too.
currently, left wing ideas are not mainstream in Russia. I hope his statements will allow for more open discussion. One can only hope eh 😔
Russians don't miss communism because of ideals. They miss the national pride, strong government, economic safety. Putin is nazbol at best and fascist at worst, don't expect anything to change in Russia.
The Russian government isn't fascist but there are people with fascist-like views (like Dugin) in the ruling party and government. I don't think it's fair to categorize the whole government as nazbol, but they do make some rhetorical appeals to that sort of ideology. They're only driven by self preservation, they don't want an alternative political organization (to their left or to their right) to arise which would challenge their power and "destabilize" society. They basically control every significant political force outside of a small, mostly liberal opposition that's mostly supported by educated urbanites. Relative to where the Russian populace is at in their political beliefs it's a centrist government that happens to be authoritarian.
Is he referring to the Bolshevik-Menshevik split at the second congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party?
