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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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
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.