Putin is every bit as bad as claimed. If you don’t see that, you’re fucking blind. Navalny was only in prison to begin with because Putin is a thin-skinned shitheel that can’t handle even a modicum of criticism.
Honest question from a non-communist, based on your reply here. Does one need to support Putin to be a Marxist?
In a word, no. In a few more words, support for Russia (not Putin, as historical materialists don’t subscribe to great man theory) is only a partial, temporary, tactical one, in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.
Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US. So now the support for Russia is in the context of keeping the colonizers from recolonizing it, and supporting Russia to the extent that it helps other states liberate themselves. But Russia isn’t trying to “liberate” Ukraine, at least not all of Ukraine. It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.
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Putin is every bit as bad as claimed. If you don’t see that, you’re fucking blind. Navalny was only in prison to begin with because Putin is a thin-skinned shitheel that can’t handle even a modicum of criticism.
Oh yeah, totally. Because the US state apparatus would never abuse the legal system to punish dissidents. They have the national guard for that.
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I can’t speak to why Navalny was in prison, I only know that he was a fascist who wanted to invite US capitalists back to resume their neoliberal shock therapy plundering that started under Yeltsin and ended under Putin.
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Yes we just love us some dictators uwu 🙄 Copypasta from a previous conversation:
I agree entirely that Russia is liberating Ukraine like they did with Georgia… if you replace liberating with vassalizing.