Russia successfully resisting and damaging US imperialism is a much better result for communists than the US empire further expanding. The russian federation is very much economically liberal, in the exact same way as the west and particularly America, so there is no real reason for us to dislike them more on those grounds. As much as the west paints Putin as an authoritarian dictator, he is actually popular in Russia. He saved the country from economic crisis and massively improved living conditions - not to the level of the USSR, but still in a way very much felt by the public. It is the liberal democracy the west wanted to turn it into, they just don’t like that it’s a competing liberal democracy rather than a subservient one. Arguably a more successful liberal democracy, as they actually like their leader.
Communism can grow far more easily in a multipolar world, so despite being deeply critical of both sides in general we support the side whose success creates more advantageous conditions for us.
LGBTQ+ people in Russia definitely don’t like their leader. Just keep in mind that Putin isn’t as great as you’re trying to paint him for many minority groups in Russia. I get what you’re saying, but critical support and all that.
Plenty of people don’t like Putin, but this is just a vicious cycle and a natural reaction to liberalization of your economy.
Many Global South countries invariably follow the same story:
the collapse of the USSR gave the US imperialists an unopposed domination over other countries
US then places sanctions on left wing governments in the Global South, destroys their economy and props up right wing dictators, who then killed all the left wing activists
young professionals educated from Western institutions came home and brought back neoliberal ideas
neoliberal centrist parties elected to power by popular support to fight corruption
neoliberal government liberalizes the economy and introduces the wonderful ideas of austerity and mass privatization, which made the economy free fall even worse than before
people start to hate liberal economics and Western liberal values
left wing government gets elected again and tries to nationalize economies, they get under US sanctions which made things worse
people now hate the new left wing government
right wing dictators propped up by Western imperialists again, or right wing populists that pose no threat to Western imperialism
rinse and repeat steps 4-9
There is no way out of this vicious cycle until Western imperialism is fully and thoroughly defeated.
If you’ve lived your entire life in a Global South country you’ve seen this cycle played out many times already.
Yup, damn good summary. Hopefully BRICS and alternate economies not dependent on Western hegemony help. I’m tired of seeing countries destroyed by US sanctions.
LGBTQ+ people in Russia definitely don’t like their leader.
There’s not really any viable pro-LGBTQ+ alternative in Russia right now unfortunately. Even the guy who the West picked as a potential replacement for Putin was a massive regressive.
I mean yeah, it’s a liberal democracy and comes with all the problems of liberal democracy - the racism, ableism, homo and transphobia etc are all features of the system - but he did bring economic security back to a lot of people, which secured their approval. He’s not a good person for it, it’s just the material basis for his popularity.
Russia successfully resisting and damaging US imperialism is a much better result for communists than the US empire further expanding. The russian federation is very much economically liberal, in the exact same way as the west and particularly America, so there is no real reason for us to dislike them more on those grounds. As much as the west paints Putin as an authoritarian dictator, he is actually popular in Russia. He saved the country from economic crisis and massively improved living conditions - not to the level of the USSR, but still in a way very much felt by the public. It is the liberal democracy the west wanted to turn it into, they just don’t like that it’s a competing liberal democracy rather than a subservient one. Arguably a more successful liberal democracy, as they actually like their leader.
Communism can grow far more easily in a multipolar world, so despite being deeply critical of both sides in general we support the side whose success creates more advantageous conditions for us.
LGBTQ+ people in Russia definitely don’t like their leader. Just keep in mind that Putin isn’t as great as you’re trying to paint him for many minority groups in Russia. I get what you’re saying, but critical support and all that.
Plenty of people don’t like Putin, but this is just a vicious cycle and a natural reaction to liberalization of your economy.
Many Global South countries invariably follow the same story:
There is no way out of this vicious cycle until Western imperialism is fully and thoroughly defeated.
If you’ve lived your entire life in a Global South country you’ve seen this cycle played out many times already.
Yup, damn good summary. Hopefully BRICS and alternate economies not dependent on Western hegemony help. I’m tired of seeing countries destroyed by US sanctions.
steps 7-8 are optional, and can be skipped by employing enough anti-communist propaganda
so it’s just neoliberalism-austerity-depression-right wing populism-corrupt oligarchy, back to western backed neoliberals and so on
not even a succdem in sight
There’s not really any viable pro-LGBTQ+ alternative in Russia right now unfortunately. Even the guy who the West picked as a potential replacement for Putin was a massive regressive.
I mean yeah, it’s a liberal democracy and comes with all the problems of liberal democracy - the racism, ableism, homo and transphobia etc are all features of the system - but he did bring economic security back to a lot of people, which secured their approval. He’s not a good person for it, it’s just the material basis for his popularity.