I was at my city's DSA bylaws committee and they were pushing racial and gender quotas on leadership and I suggested a class quota and got pushback. One of the people there was a legitimate business owner with employees. Anyone who thinks that organization is proletarian in the slightest is fooling themselves. So glad I didn't stay in america long.
I'm not particularly an undying supporter of China but I've noticed that western communists usually take a hard pro-vietnam stance and entirely blame China when the reality is not so clear cut if I'm going to be fair to both parties here (I think its because they secretly believe china is revisionist for adopting market reforms, not socialist for spliting with the soviets, or imperialist for attacking vietnam) but I dunno I don't understand western communists and their weird ideological inheritence.
Chinese sources, and I can only assume Vietnamese ones too but I don't know any Vietnamese, are much more detailed but trust me when I say it kicked off in 1978 not after the war. Also, Cambodia killed way way more ethnic Chinese than ethnic Vietnamese (there we're more ethnic Chinese than Vietnamese in the country naturally)
support means anything between recognizing the government to giving them a blank check for whatever they want. Its not exactly specific thing you're complaining about
damn I guess its okay when Vietnam "intervenes" into Cambodia but when China has a border conflict with Vietnam its an "invasion". and no, the CPC definitely still supports the action and theres tons of movies in chinese cinemas about how good and necessary the action was
Yandex is in a very strange position since it has to cooperate with the government and has a strange property structure. If I we're to guess what would happen under a navalny government I guess he would probably limit military spending, increase welfare, and push for policies which favour small and medium sized businesses (especially those in high tech sectors). This would put him directly at odds with the Siloviks of russian society who benefit heavily from the Military-Industrial complex. In order to succeed he would likely have to either moderate himself to gain support from the present oligarchs in russia to kick out the siloviks or he would have to make a clean sweep of the russian socio-economo-political situation to structure society in favour of his view which seems highly unlikely. Russian society essentially resembles Fascist Italy and its corporatism when it comes to how the country operates which took a world war to overthrow and up-end. Either way its not for me to decide, I'm not russian.
if you think the presence and absense a monarchy is the only determiner of class relations in a country you're being obtuse and theres a reason why Marx called those who deny the value of reforms "revolutionary phrase-mongers"
damn, I guess karl marx wasn't actually for change when he supported the nationalists and liberals in the revolutions of 1848. Don't know why he even bothered leaving his home at the time
its a highly broad coalition of people unified only in being opposed to putin but in general are in favour of more decentralization, localism, regionalism, anti-censorship, anti-clericalism, and secularism. in the short term, having navalny moved to a hospital (done), having navalny unarrested (ongoing), having putin removed from power (far off). There are specific sections of the coalition like "Leftists" who care about socio-economic issues, welfare, and anti-oligarch stuff, "Nationalists" who want less illegal immigration, subsidies to caucuses, or kowtowing to religious extremists like Kadyrov, "Liberals" who care about normalizing relations with The West, Democracy, Human Rights, not having a war in Ukraine, and medium or small business desires. Navalny generally appeals to all members of these groups but usually leans Liberal and people can care about multiple aspects. Speaking of what the government would look like after a revolution its hard to say, It would most likely end up looking like Iran after their revolution where it could've definitely ended up looking like many different regime types, left or right wing.
what does that have to do with what I said and what billionaires who fled russia support him? Чичваркин? hes not relevent in the slightest. Navalny as a personality has little to do with the proletarian nature of the anti-putin movement. The guy is a powerless figure-head that the movement is unified around not some director giving orders to a bunch of secretive lackeys.
Pro-western cryptofascism? what are you talking about? pro-westerners who hate russia are демшиза which navalny is absolutely not. Hes just a националист who opposes the патриот who are the conservative, imperialist chauvanists that support putin.
may the russian proletariat succeed in their revolutionary defeatism against their imperialist leaders in the global class war. Death to putin, the richest capitalist in the world!
there was essentially no capitalist class, or at least to say one capable of effecting any policy decisions of the communist party, until after the dissolution of the soviet union and suspension of all CPSU activity by the supreme soviet
have you ever been to a third world country? those things on your list are usually the least of your worries. Most of the third world is way more racially homogeneous, or less caring about race than america. LGBTQ rights like gay marriage or mental health care/ stigmatization are worries way way way after getting food, working a shit job, or having good housing.
don't give up coffee. if people stop buying coffee the plantations will have to shut down and people will be out of the job. usually if that happens they end up becoming peasant squators who have to subsistence farm. I've seen people who subsistence farm and its a highly unnutritious living thats unhealthy for those involved. not to mention the last time my country had a large peasant squatting problem it caused a xenophobic war to kick those peasants back to where they came from. while on the otherhand my family has worked for the dole company for generations and with that consistent wage income was able to get some education and typical wage jobs.
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