The main two opposing groups of opinion I’ve seen form among leftists are firstly, that the popular protest and removal of Lukashenko is both legitimate AND desirable - legitimate in that he has genuinely lost support from the mass of the proletariat, and desirable in that a bourgeois democratic government would create better conditions for the class struggle in Belarus. This side also seems to argue that this mass movement of workers is good in of itself, for class consciousness and solidarity.

The second opinion seems to mainly revolve around fears that Belarus will go the way of Ukraine and much of Eastern Europe and be seized by fascists and other reactionaries. The argument against that I’ve seen from the first group is that the working class in Belarus is much more anti-fascist than other places in Eastern Europe (personally I’m not sure I buy that without some serious evidence, I’ve also seen it argued that “they have vivid cultural memories of occupation by the fascists in WWII” - should that not also have applied to Ukraine? It seems a specious argument tbh).

I’m happy to admit I’m not in possession of enough facts to claim an educated opinion either way, was wondering what everyone was thinking on the subject.

  • cummunist [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Gonna be shit anyway. Maybe if there's a color revolution and capitalism start hitting hard people will turn full communist idk

      • cummunist [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah lol especially in Poland. Liberalism is a brain disease and it's gonna cause massive extinction of the human race

        • Chomsky [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          Its not going to be a "liberal democracy" that's a fantasy. If the left has any hope in hell of power they are going to ram some Boris Yeltsin fuck down their throats until the left, one way or another, is crippled for generations like it was in Russia.