volodya_ilich @ volodya_ilich @lemm.ee

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I swear it's always the same in .world

Post: "America proven to have done yet another thing wrong"

First comment: "BuT rUsSiA aNd ChInA?!!?!!!1!!11!"

For the record, this is a report coming from Reuters, the reports that Russia spread misinformation about COVID came from the State Department's Global Engagement Center

Insane degrees of whataboutism

The second biggest party in Russia is as communist as the biggest party in Germany is socialist: exclusively in name. The communist party of Russia was co-opted, and currently absolutely doesn't espouse any ideal of communism, the only thing it does is to channel nationalist sentiment of people who were alive during the USSR, and redirect it towards support of the current regime. No communist in the west supports the Russian communist party, and I say this as someone from a western country who is involved in hardcore leftist spaces, where people generally espouse the opinion: "USA is an imperialist country, NATO is a US tool to further their interests and to skew policy outside the US in their favour, but also Putin is a kleptocrat and an olicarch. He pushes fascist policy like degradation of social rights in his homeland, imperialism and expansionism such as the Ukraine war, and he's a consequence of the dismantling of the USSR and the auctioning of the country to the most corrupt bidder". Hating NATO and hating Putin are complementary positions, not contradictory, and as I said, in my experience it's what most hardcore leftists espouse.

Did what you said and searched "Ukraine" in ml. First post had a poll about citizens from EU and from US wanting the war to end. Went to the comments, first comment, 15 upvoted: "then tell Putin to to home". Response to that comment, 4 downvotes: "how original". As I said, the overwhelming sentiment, because people generally aren't idiots, is that yes, USA bad, NATO bad, and USA has been pushing NATO further to the east and that's a really bad thing, but also Putin isn't a saviour of Russia and a freedom fighter but a Russian oligarch in an imperialist war who additionally pushes fascist-like policy at home such as degradation of social rights, boosting of religion, and militarisation of the country. Criticism of NATO and the USA doesn't amount to "Ukraine deserves to be invaded".

Marxist-Leninists, in an overwhelming majority, oppose Putin and the modern Russian state, since it represents the opposite of what the USSR represented.

If the lenders operate with the purpose of maximizing profit, then yeah, it makes sense not to loan money to people in precarious situations except at high interest rates, that's my whole point: that's evil, the profit motive leads to evil decisions. Let's have public banks instead, where interest rates for loans are equalised, in the same way that every taxpayer gets identical access to healthcare regardless of how much they contribute through their income.

I've read through both your replies, and I want to say that thank you for your detailed perspective, it's good to hear, and I generally agree with the overall sentiment while I disagree with a few things. Right now I don't have the time to answer both in detail, so I will answer you when I find some time later today or tomorrow, with a better thought out answer. A lot of food for thought in your comments anyway, you have quite a bit of insight on the whole thing and it's a pleasure to read well-thought, well-structured comments like yours, so already thank you for that.

Plenty of idiots around to upvote your shit, no doubt.

Yeah, it might have been funny the first time 10 years ago, but repeating the same joke over and over again, often makes it annoying and unfunny, as is the case with your comment, especially when it's not even accurate.

I'm not talking about the current way, I'm talking about the possibility of a privacy-focused crypto, issued by the state, where transactions can be made private with the Blockchain. This crypto, as it would be used for normal transactions, wouldn't have more variability or speculation than the variability and speculation in converting US Dollars to UK Pounds. The post talks in hypotheticals, I do too.

I don't think fiat currency isn't used for illegal activity, I think crypto is mostly not used for normal transactions.

I checked Varoufakis, and I really don't know what you mean. He's openly against the Russian imperialist invasion:

"Without hesitation. Unconditionally. When I see civilians in Kharkiv or Kiyv preparing Molotov cocktails with which to defend their homes from the advancing Russian tanks, I cannot but cheer them on" "Today we must stand with Ukraine, unconditionally. And we must say it out loud: Putin is a war criminal" "To help Ukrainians find a path toward peace and freedom, we must also choose to put their interests above our ideologies and fixations. I am a left-winger. But, while people in the Ukraine are dying, I do not have the right to focus on whether the economic ideology or political biases of President Zelensky are to my liking. I must support him – to the extent that Ukrainians are looking to him for leadership now. Period. And I hope that those whose politics differ from mine do the likewise: place the task of pushing Russian troops out of Ukraine above their ideological preferences (e.g. a Ukraine that is a NATO or an EU member)."

He adds more stuff and says that we also must support Palestinians and whatnot, but he's clearly, openly and unapologetically against the invasion, isn't he?

Marxist-Leninists in an overwhelming majority oppose the current Russian government. Putin isn't at the service of communism or the USSR, he's a capitalist, oligarch, fascist kleptocrat, waging an illegal war between countries that used to be brothers in the USSR times.

I never heard Varoufakis talk about modern Russian imperialism, what does he say about it? In my experience, hardcore commie internet personalities such as Hakim or Second Thought oppose the current Russian imperialist government.

Of course there are stupid idiots everywhere, including ml, and there are bound to be "leftists" whose entire ideology is "USA bad, so NATO bad, so Putin good", which is insane because USA bad and NATO bad but modern Russia also bad. But as I say, in my experience in leftist spaces (as a hardcore leftist), this is very fringe and not representative of commies or Marxist-Leninists at all