If you mean printing weapons, I really doubt that would help a lot in getting access to female hospital wards, homeless shelters, bathrooms, domestic abuse centres, and so on.

A symptom for sure. She’s just a kids writer, nobody would pay her any attention if she was a communist. She’s being boosted exactly because she’s a TERF.

That sounds great but I don’t believe a Western style liberal democracy is able to do that due to how enmeshed Nazis are in their organisations on every level, from regional to international, and how central fascism is to the project of saving capitalism in the face of crises.

It’s the same with saving the planet and any other project demanding radical change - we’ve learned time and time again capitalism can offer nothing but empty promises, to actually achieve anything you need to first establish the dictatorship of the proletariat.

As an added bonus, DOTP is able to re-educate and de-radicalise communities targeted by fascist indoctrination by placing their needs first, raising their standards of living, and allowing them to flourish and develop a healthy communal spirit, so only the worst offenders, leaders and ideologues, need to be executed.

There’s exactly the same sentiment expressed in one of the exhibits in the Berlin Stasi museum (predictably).

Apparently her son was living there for 20 years and she moved to him cause she was getting too frail to live on her own.

Finally someone with a courage to stand against refugees, disabled, and ninjas.

I think the term originated within CPGB (a Marxist-Leninist party in the UK) so Trots had nothing to do with this one.

By the way, Vijay Prashad explained it very well a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsqE9kEsDVY

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7357419/6115188

Stalin had nothing to do with Hungary though, that was Khrushchev.

The Donbass is a territory unique from others in the region.

Doesn’t make it a nation.

I also believe that when two cultures come together, Russian and Ukrainian for example, that this creates a unique culture where traditions from both become mixed together.

Sure, this is basically what Cossacks were, with some influence from nations of Caucasus; there were even some calls for independence.

However this is not what happened in Donbass, ask anyone in Donbass what is their nationality and they will either say Russian or Ukrainian.

I think the Russian communist party is big enough to try and do something.

Thank you!

I hope you’re right for all our sakes, guess we just have to wait and see where this goes.

No worries at all, this reads completely civil. :)

Great points about control over resources, I think you’re right here, this is clearly not the priority for Russia.

CPRF is bigger than Social-Democrats were in Lenins times. I know they won’t try and bring the war home to turn it into a revolution, but I think they absolutely could if a Lenin shows up (cause Zyuganov is evidently not it).

For the Russian people and the Russian soldier this is an anti-fascist struggle.

OK this is a bit much. Russia has been a hotbed for Nazism since the 90s putting even the likes of Poland to shame. Travel guides to Russia have to warn people of colour to stay in hotels on Adolf Hitlers birthday cause Russian neonazis murder people year after year to celebrate the date.

Ukraine somehow managed to out-Nazi Russia after Maidan but still, the idea that Putin invaded Ukraine to fight Nazism is laughable cause he never had any issues with Nazis in Russia.

The problem is that at this point, it has become very hard to separate the Bandera cult and the russophobia from Ukrainian identity.

That’s just Great-Russian chauvinism. Sorry but you’re parroting the most reactionary Russian propaganda, like this piece which openly states de-nazification of Ukraine is necessarily also de-Ukrainization: https://ria.ru/20220403/ukraina-1781469605.html

I can’t agree with that. Even Nazi Germany didn’t need to be de-Germanized after the WW2, you only had to change the system and you got DDR.

Erstes Reich, Zweites Reich, Drittes Reich, Drittes reicht.

I’m not sure I follow, what is so specific to Galicia in the current Ukrainian national identity? How is it different from Ukrainian identity of the UkrSSR?

It seems to me Ukrainian Nazis did the same thing Nazis do everywhere - take a national identity and slap some hatred on top. In this case, Bandera cult and russophobia. Remove that and you’re back to just… Regular Ukrainians. Am I missing something?

I find it revolutionary since it challenges the status quo of the uni-polar world.

Was Iraqi invasion of Kuwait revolutionary because it went against US interests?

Revolutionary defeatism isn’t the idea that communists should want Russia to lose every war. Its wanting your capitalist government to lose the war so you can turn it into a civil war.

Everyone in this thread agrees communists in the West should facilitate their governments defeat. The only disagreement is whether Russian communists should practice defeatism or not.

If you are Russian then yes you should want Russia to lose in Ukraine

Cool, we agree then.

There is no nation of Hong Kong, they are Han Chinese. There is no nation of Donbass, they are Russians and Ukrainians. The way you’re trying to read that quote from Lenin, every single town, every village, every district is a nation. That’s not at all what Lenin said.

Tibet does have it’s own language, territory, and culture, and so it is indeed a nation.