The rise of China and the fall of the West could pave the way to socialist movements in the Global South, don't you think?
Putin is denounced as authoritarian because Ukrainians are perceived as white and innocent. At the same time, Russians are depicted as brutish orcs, a pejorative frequently used against them on social media.
I'll take an issue with this. They would never fight a war to the last Englishman or Frenchman the way they are happy to fight a war to the last Ukrainian. They say as much openly, boasting how they are damaging Russia militarily without losing a single American life. They would never use depleted uranium munitions on their own soil, to see their babies born malformed. They never considered Slavs "white" and never will, look at what they did to Yugoslavia, look at how they ransacked Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Warsaw pact, look at Ukrainian mail order brides and wombs for hire, look at how the EU designated Romania as the country to be raped by the rest of Europe - everybody knows the brothels across the EU are filled with nationals of one single EU member state and nobody bats an eye. Regardless of any proclamations, they see Ukrainians as untermenschen, Bandera learned it the hard way and Zelensky is learning now.
Despite being similar societies, liberals consider them two distinct nations.
Ukrainians are a separate nation. This was never doubted under USSR.
yeah they always compare the west as it is now with communist countries 50-100 years ago, right after the revolution, in the middle of civil war and famine, encircled by capitalist aggression etc.
unsurprising really, if your analysis by definition doesn't account for material conditions and is purely idealistic, nothing stops you from comparing societies from different time periods, on different stages of economic and technical development, etc.
next up: metal deficits force closures of the few remaining US manufacturing plants
a right removed if I've ever seen one
I'm guessing you prefer mainstream sources so please look up Chomsky and Mearsheimer for the 'splaining you so crave.
wtf did I just read
totally on brand too
yeah go ask a neonazi mi6 asset lol
Ah yes, Thuringia where Social-Democratic party Die Linke was under illegal surveillance for being "extremist"
https://www.welt.de/politik/article1562539/Beobachtung-von-Linkspartei-Politiker-verboten.html
Now neonazis are coming to power, who woulda thunk
Great article, thank you for linking.
You are completely misinformed.
First of all "kulaks" were not working peasants who lived self-sufficiently off farming their land and raising their livestock, you are thinking of "serednyaks", the class below kulaks in the 4-tier rural class system of Imperial Russia. Kulaks were rural loan sharks and land owners who did not work but rather lived off extortionate interest rates from loans to "serednyaks" and from exploiting the labour of "bednyaks" (literally "the poor") and, mainly, the seasonal labour of "batraks" who were the class below "the poor" - many of them homeless, traveling from village to village and working quite literally for a bit of food and a place to sleep in the barn.
If you intend to keep talking publically about kulaks, do look into those classes, look up who batraks were and what kind of life they lead before the revolution, the mortality, the diseases, how many they were compared to the number of kulaks. Find out what dekulakisation brought not only for kulaks, but also for that huge number of serednyaks, bednyaks, and batraks they exploited. Find out what dekulakisation did to overall child mortality, child hight, life expectancy, and so on.
Second, kulaks were not murdered, they were eliminated as an economic class by removing the relataionship of exploitation. Their lands were taken and given to the people, and the ones who resisted were deported with their families.