Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
Comrade King was a Democratic Socialist reverend who fulfilled a critical role in bringing about many civil rights for minority Americans.
Despite being bullied by the FBI into denouncing communism, he still openly associated with communists and labor organizers. Dr. King additionally opposed American imperialism in Vietnam.
Dr. King's last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (libgen link) is a firmly anti-capitalist work that advocates for the better treatment of impoverished Americans through radical policies.
Here's an audio recording of King's last speech. Here's the timestamp for the last two minutes of it if you're a lib.
King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail is mandatory reading for the honky horde, and it is perfect to quote and reference when engaging with lib brained racists.
And, because King was a Christian minister, it seems only right to bring up something biblical. Jesus' Sermon on the Mount is a very relevant part of King's politics, so it can be read here in Matthew chapters 5 to 7.
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Free market neoliberals who still want to emulate the West have basically been entirely discredited and marginalized in Russian politics for over two decades.
Navalny's just the latest in a long line of "anti-corruption reformers" who becomes the darling of the moment for Western media coverage and lionized into some type of high-profile populist. In reality his party is almost entirely irrelevant and his only personal foray into politics was a run for mayor of Moscow where he got ~20% of the vote.
He's also serving the purpose of attempted assassinations of Russian dissidents getting flattened and pinned on Putin by Western media. See also: Sergei Skripal. These low-level players piss off some oligarch or mafia boss or another and get merked by poison, which Western media then mutates into being "Putin's calling card" and using as an excuse for tightening the national security state against the spooky Russian spies. Almost no actual evidence ever surfaces that Putin was responsible.
is there no hope for Russia? From a leftist, not liberal, pov of course.
I mean they're not going communist anytime soon and their communist party has been well tamed by their new ruling class.
So much of what is wrong with Russian politics stems directly from the consequences of the Soviet suicide and constant American meddling. Putin is portrayed by Western media as some sinister Sauron-esque figure when he's a fucking moderate balancing precarious competing interests.
Russia gets demonized constantly because they vociferously object to a hostile military alliance encircling them and moving troops up to their borders. Theyre really not that bad in the grand scheme, most of what they do in terms of "imperialism" is reaction to American moves and mistreatment.