Yeah I'm sure it was people's desire for unity, and not the drastic drop in the quality of life experienced by the average Russian during the 90s.

  • snackage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah I saw the LGBT stuff on the Wikipedia article It's disappointing but like the situation in the UK. I don't think it's inherent to MLism and has more to do with the leadership of those parties being still pretty old. I was only referencing the KKE because of the Civil War and the Greek Resistance during WWII and less so how they are now.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I don’t think it’s inherent to MLism and has more to do with the leadership of those parties being still pretty old

      Leadership AND voter base. KKE has done a shit job at influencing young people so they're left with boomers and they try to appease their boomer voters. Boomerification is one of the main factors that contribute to it being pretty sad these last few decades. I think the worst mistake they made was during 1989 when they cooperated with the right wing to take down Papandreou, it pissed off many people and there was an overall conservative turn that pissed off a big part of the party youth, which eventually split in half.

      But yes of course the resistance was something extremely important and every leftist in Greece has to uphold its legacy.

      • snackage [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        We're in a post-pandemic post 2008 world now. The youth will influence themselves to be communist.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          We're trying... I hate how english language internet is actually influencing some people to be more reactionary than they would otherwise be, fucking America is exporting brainworms...

          • snackage [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            same. I hate how much brainspace America takes up in my dumb head.

            • Pezevenk [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Like, fuck, last week I discovered a libertarian here. Thanks America.