I don't know what tankies you've seen, lil fasc, but it was always understood among us that Prigozhin was only useful as long as he was under control. An ancap with a personal army running around unchecked isn't something you'll catch me supporting. I just wish this was done more effectively, without loosing control of the orchestra.
Yeap. Russian skitzo political landscape be like: we got volunteers from CPRF on the frontlines, battlepriests, squad of football fans, squad of nazbols, and...oh, right, squad of anime fans.
I seem to remember something about a community of anime fans involved in humanitarian aid called Орда (Horde) too. 21st century war in Europe be like. And, speaking of Horde
I was just hoping CPC would manage a peaceful resolution and now it be lookin like Ukrainian experience will be directly implemented there. They still might, I suppose, but I'm all out of optimism.
Well, there have been signs of ukrainization, if you will, of Taiwan throughout SMO, and Amerikkka is definitely interested, so this is, unfortunately, not surprising.
It doesn't need to. If the deal they cut with the US nets them a wealthy life in a pretty place by a lake after all is said and done, it'll all've been worth it. And they might even actually get what they were promised!
I mean, look at that Chechen terrorist, the "president in exile" one, whatever the fuck his name was, he doesn't deserve one anyway.
that Russia has allegedly used cluster bombs so that makes it okay
Pretty sure they are used by both sides, yeah. Ukraine, it's owners and Russia never signed the treaties concerning those.
The difference is that bandera-marines prefer using those for things that spread democracy and peace. You know, targeting population centers, scattering anti-infantry mines over Donetsk, that kind of thing...
I don't think restraint was a factor at all. It's more likely they were tripping over themselves to write about China collapsing in the next 4 days.
Wait...
Aaaand that's why I don't comment on these things as they break. I shit you not, some people over here were "expecting"(as if they had the info for a half decent analysis) a civil war...
While I have my own tendencies which are, as far as I can tell, closest to ML, I don’t feel like I can afford to discredit or discount any particular tendency. ML worked for establishing the USSR, MLM worked for China, Castroism for Cuba, Ho Chi Mihn thought for Vietnam, etc.
They're all ML though. The word "leninism" isn't there because it was a particular regime with a particular leader, but because it's theory born of practice, where Marx was all theory (and pointed out, to his credit, that practice will change the theory) and CPSU's revolutionary experience proved , well, a lot of things, but most of all the importance of a vanguard party and consideration for national specifics when applying Marxism to material conditions of a particular country. Revolutionary theory doesn't get much more complete than ML without actually becoming nation-specific.
That's why you'll find both references to ML in works of Mao, Ho Chi Mihn, Kim Il-sung and Kastro as well as acknowledgment of them taking a lot of notes. Application was different both because of the national specifics part (as it should've been) and in how successful it was (for example, CPSU fucked up a lot with national question and WPK passed that part with flying colors).
Contributions to Marxist thought are a separate thing. Kim Il-sung's works are quite popular with Russian ML's for example (guess why, considering what I already wrote=) and the only Marxist thinkers that get discounted by MLs are the ones whose theory very obviously sucks and doesn't pass attempts at application, like Trots. As a matter of fact, I think breeding too many -isms is a disservice to ourselves. Just look at Maoism/Mao Zedong Thought confusion.
Feels too “gatekeepy” or “no true Scotsman”-esque.
It needs not to be either with ML though? It's a specific ideology with philosophical footing in diamat, we are not talking about favourite food here nor do we have to engage in postmodern "what is X really" bullshit. I guess, when we broaden that to "communists" that's more fair, but succdems and anarchists can self-identify as reincarnations of Marx for all I care, they're misguided at best and are unknowingly helping the capitalists at worst.
My basis is seeing this stuff from inside the country. CPRF is a pocket opposition party with some based low level personnel.
who actually imprisons communists in his country on the reg
Well, I don't know about that one, most of the "communists" who end up in prisons are CPRF and nazbols (MLs don't have an organization worth opressing, unfortunately, and the only one I can think of in recent memory is a unionist Kirill Ukraintsev), but Putin sure is no communist, yes.
P.S. Oh, and trots started running away from the country around this autumn even though noone was after them xD
SBU*
Edit: You know what, never mind, SBU is a CIA branch anyway.