cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2614140
Also a Ukrainian communist i know confirmed it’s true
I am hoping by “communists” you mean people who are aligned with marxism ideal, but not people supporting authoritarian capitalist regimes.
Agreed, fuck “communists” who support the US and their line
Fuck communists.
Tankies when capitalism 😥
Tankies when capitalism with red flags 😎
I support any country’s right to not be conquered by capitalist, imperialist oligarchs whether I like their internal politics or not. I hate it when the US does it, so it would be hypocritical to not hate it when Russia does the same thing.
Yup, I was opposed to the U.S.'s imperialist war for oil in Iraq. Just like I oppose Russia’s imperialist war for oil in Ukraine.
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Yup, my understanding is there is a lot of oil in Ukraine (I think donbas specifically but don’t quote me on that). And arguably more importantly, a major pipeline runs through Ukraine. My understanding is the EU is currently very reliant on Russian oil and they would very much like to not be. Hence, why Ukrainian membership to NATO is so attractive.
I think a lot of people in the West dismiss Putin as a nutjob, but I think there is a rational reason for controlling Ukraine. Oil is Russia’s largest export after all.
All of that isn’t meant to excuse Russia; it’s unethical to murder for oil. But it’s intellectually lazy to dismiss a rational actor (albeit an unethical actor) as crazy. But capitalism gonna capitalism. And until we put an end to capitalism, people are going to continue to murder for money.
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It’s really not hard to understand. Ukraine discovered huge gas deposits in Donbass, which threatened Muskovy’s ability to control the price like they wanted. There was no US coup, and the horrors inflicted have been from Muskovy.
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I have no interest in sounding reasonable to redfash
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Nazism is not banned in Ukraine though.Their national hero is a nazi who participated in the Holocaust.
It’s insane that Ukraine worships Bandera who was an actual Nazi while actually decent Ukrainian Revolutionaries like Makhno are forgotten.
That’s a false equivalency. Genocide is core to Nazi ideology. And communism didn’t cause the death of millions any more than capitalism caused the deaths of millions. It gets pretty messy when you try and attribute unintentional deaths to an economic system. And frankly, kind of gross when you conflate unintentional deaths with the very deliberate and systematic execution of people.
given the circumstances and how these commie parties are aligned with their invaders, it’s fair game
Oh nice a vatnik. I was expecting tankies here but no vatniks.
I’m a Leftist who isn’t a Communist. There’s lots of room on the Left.
Yes, lots of us live in reality and don’t try and convince others a utopian society is in any way possible.
Siri what is capitalist realism? Also Marxism is literally a materialist ideology, non-marxist leftists generally follow more utopian ideology.
The Smurfs were communist… though to be fair there was only 100 of them, and they all had jobs, and enough resources to go around. That one female though…
In the lore she was created by Gargamel as a trap to lure the Smurf village.
As they should be; communism is just another hateful ideology pretending to be left
