Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sat down with Sputnik to discuss the US–Russia dialogue on resolving the Ukraine conflict, Russia’s progress on the battlefield, and the importance of creating a viable system of security guarantees.
Honest question from a non-communist, based on your reply here. Does one need to support Putin to be a Marxist?
In a word, no. In a few more words, support for Russia (not Putin, as historical materialists don’t subscribe to great man theory) is only a partial, temporary, tactical one, in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.
Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US. So now the support for Russia is in the context of keeping the colonizers from recolonizing it, and supporting Russia to the extent that it helps other states liberate themselves. But Russia isn’t trying to “liberate” Ukraine, at least not all of Ukraine. It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.
Yet, invariably, all align with Russian propagandist talking points.
Well see there’s your problem. Previously:
You immediately prevent taking any of your claims seriously by parroting Russian excuses for an unprovoked war of aggression.
Sorry, but if you’re looking to argue or try and get a rise out of me, you’re going to have to not mindlessly regurgitate Putin’s delusions.
Have the day you deserve.
This Russian talking point parrot canard is just a thought-terminating cliché.
If Putin says the sky is blue, does that make it not blue? See? It’s just a facile excuse to ignore any countervailing arguments or evidence.
OH. You thought I was here to engage in a debate with propagandists?
No, no, no.
I’m here to point out on every Russian state media post how the OP is a Russian shill.
You can stick your Russophile propaganda where the sun doesn’t shine, because I’m not the audience for it.
Most of OP’s posts aren’t even about Russia or Ukraine.
Calling users shills—Russian or otherwise—without evidence is liable to get you banned.