Reply To: Russian Tensions
“And why should any worker care?”
Ask a Syrian worker whether they’re better off under their present government or one of extremist headchoppers. Some forms of government are very much worse than others.
““The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.” The Communist Manifesto”
In principle all well and good. In reality, until the whole world is communist, a bunch of bollocks.
“It is Russia and Ukraine and all other nation-states around the world that we should seek to eliminate.”
Yes, but until then we’re stuck with them and some are very much worse than others.
“Our case is that it should not simply be the Russian worker to wish defeat upon its government but that workers everywhere should aspire for the same.”
And that is why you are an infantile ideologue. As long as nation states exist the only means of protecting oneself from the predations of other states is to have one of your own. Without it you’re a babe in the woods moments away from being torn to shreds by the wolves.
““The existence of the state and the existence of slavery are inseparable” – Marx”
And yet Marx accepted that a state was necessary til it withered away. You’re being very selective with your quotations.
“Do you oppose another Russian Revolution that deposes the Russian oligarchy from power and ownership?”
NATOstan can go first.
“A defeat for Russia could possibly facilitate and lead to such a social revolution.”
No, it would mean the immiseration of the Russian people on such a scale that the 90s would look like a picnic. But Russia won’t lose so the point is moot.
“A defeat for Ukraine merely brings occupation and the imposition of a puppet regime.”
That is what Ukraine is now. A puppet of NATOstan. The Minsk agreement allowed for Ukrainian neutrality. Remind me, who scuppered the deal?