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I don’t know how true this is or if there is any truth in it at all. Does anybody know? I wouldn’t touch the Daily Express with a bargepole usually. Its basically just toilet paper, a rag for propagating the most reactionary political sentiments
“Workers at the armament factories in Russia move to 6-day week and 12-hour shifts and suspend holiday entitlements when required”
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An intensification of capitalist exploitation in other words, while the parasitic Russian oligarch class represented by Putin and his henchmen, and supported here by True Imperialist, continue to enjoy an astonishingly luxurious lifestyle at the expense of Russian workers
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“Erm, you’re forgetting NATOstan. This is a war waged by NATOstan and its proxy Nazis against Russia.”
I am well aware that Ukraine is supported by NATO countries so what’s your point? You keep on calling Ukraine “Nazi” and justifying your support for Russia in this stupid war in terms of want to “denazify” Ukraine. It’s like it’s just a silly word game with you.
My point – that you keep on evading – is that 1) it is technically incorrect, an abuse of the word itself, to call Ukraine a “Nazi” regime.
Saying that a third of the Ukrainian armed forces (or whatever) are self-identifying Nazis will not cut it as an argument and I challenge you to show where the Zelensky regime, abhorrent though it is, has ever actually called itself “Nazi” or explicitly endorsed nazism. Saying that it eulogizes a Nazi-supporting figure like Bandera is NOT an argument you can legitimately use since it is quite possible to endorse his Ukrainian nationalism without endorsing his fascist outlook.And 2) if Ukrainian is Nazi then so too is Russia since they are very similar in political outlook and practice. The ideological differences between them are completely superficial – just like your own analysis of the situation.
“76% and 64% Nazi. Still a lot of de-Nazification necessary by the looks.”
_____________________________So according to True Imperialist, 76% of Ukraine men and 64% of Ukrainian women are Nazis because they the war to continue until Russia is forced to leave all occupied territory including Crimea
Is that how you define a Nazi – by the fact that you are a warmonger? In which case what percentage of the Russian population are Nazis by this criterion?
What a clown
We are talking about two corrupt authoritarian repressive right-wing capitalist regimes at war with each other that are pretty similar in political outlook and practice. Socialists emphatically oppose both of them. Only someone who is inclined to support corrupt authoritarian repressive right-wing capitalist regimes would support one of these regimes against the other.
By the questionable logic of True Imperialist’s own argument, that makes him a Nazi supporter. TS is merely supporting one Nazi regime fighting another….
The outlook for Ukrainian workers, much like their counterparts in Russia, looks grim
https://www.facebook.com/ClareDalyMEP/videos/541888080846752
This might be of interest. Touches on some of the economic motives behind the war
“Russia has committed more than 30 per cent of its entire budget across defence, security and law enforcement, British defence chiefs have said.”
No doubt this will be at the expense of other categories of state expenditure such as health education and housing.
A further example of the ballooning structural waste of capitalism
“She’s Russian, a member of the working class and was opposed to the war with Ukraine. …etc ”
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Try not to be even more stupid than you usually are, TS.
So what if she is a member of the working class and went to Donbas where her mind was changed into supporting Putin’s war? Does that make her views on the matter right, eh? Are we supposed to concur with her – and you – just because she saw the “reality of Ukrainian fascist terror with her own eyes” She, or a Ukrainian version of her, could just as easily have gone to the other side of the front line and seen the “reality of Russian fascist terror with her own eyes” (sic)
There is nothing pleasant about war. It brutalises people and can turn them into warmongers. It can twist people’s minds into supporting any disreputable disgusting cause. If the missiles are raining down on you it is understandable that some people, even erstwhile liberal pacifists like this woman, can come to see the enemy as those firing those missiles and your “friends” as those fighting this enemy. Liberal pacifism is compatible with nationalism after all whereas class-conscious socialism most certainly is not
Being a worker does not mean you cannot make very bad judgments. Million of workers support the capitalist warlord, Zelensky. Millions of other workers (yourself included) support the other capitalist warlord, Putin, in this capitalist conflict. These are very bad judgments and the fact that they are made by fellow workers has not prevented them from being made, has it now? Or do you think a Ukrainian worker is right to support Zelensky just because he or she is a worker?
“Another seldom heard view – War Weary Russia”
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What Kagarlitsky says is very interesting and I would far sooner trust him as a source of information than the mixed bag of dodgy commentators TS wheels out to support his outlandish claims. Russia is indeed losing the war and will be lucky to hold onto Donbas and Crimea. Thankfully it seems more and more Russian workers are turning against the war and hopefully that will soon precipitate a collapse of the regime. There is some talk of Putin seeking safe passage to Venezuela if he is booted out. Lots of Russians already live there.
More concerning is the attitude of Ukrainian workers. Kagarlitsky refers to extreme nationalist elements emerging calling for Ukraine to carry on the fight and take all of Donbas and the Crimea too. This is criminally insane. I hope these ultra-nationalist Ukrainian ideas start losing ground as well. How many more workers have to die in the obnoxious cause of Ukrainian nationalism before workers realize it makes sod all difference who their political masters are or what flag they wrap themselves up in?
I still think the most likely outcome is a stalemate. Russia will probably hold on to Donbas and Crimea, and the general public in Ukraine will grow weary of power blackouts and missile strikes and call for negotiations. A negotiated settlement will be reached maybe involving Turkey or China.
This whole stupid senseless capitalist war will have been for nothing. NATO would have expanded its sphere of influence right up to the borders with Russia and the Ukrainian Nazis, as TS calls them, would have been solidified and strengthened by Putin’s gross miscalculation.
The real losers, as ever, would be the workers themselves – whether they live in Russia or Ukraine. They would have been the real victims of this horrendous clash of capitalist imperialisms.
“Anti-imperialist analysis is bizarre to you? Why am I not surprised?”
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hahahahahahahaWhat is truly bizarre is that an overt supporter of blatant Russian imperialism and a bootlicker of a thuggish capitalist warlord like Putin should even have the audacity to claim to be an “anti-imperialist”! He is completely lost in a little make-believe world of his own making, detached from reality and from any sensible understanding of the meaning of words. I tell you – he could just as easily swap sides with a snap of the fingers and become a craven supporter of the Ukrainian war-lord Zelensky. It’s not much of a jump in intellectual terms. They are all cut from the same cloth these far-right nationalists and the emotional fragility of this mental disease called nationalism makes them vulnerable to Damascene conversions
“Not a chance. The Russians won’t be giving up any territory. Ukraine has lost it for good. To the victor goes the spoils.”
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Spoken like a true imperialist! TS (or should he now be called TI for True Imperialist) cannot help himself. The disgusting subtext of his craven support for a capitalist warlord like Putin seeps out like toxic waste from a sewage drain. He couldn’t care a toss about the lives of workers lost on both sides in this stupid senseless war. It’s just a game of chess to him
“How a Russian liberal learned to support the SMO.”
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Liberals have got sod all to do with a socialist class-conscious opposition to nationalism and capitalism. So what’s your point in even mentioning this? Liberals support capitalism and are therefore vulnerable to an ideology that lures them into becoming a dupe – just like you! – supporting one capitalist warlord against another
Erm, no. Kiev is fascist, Moscow is not. To suggest otherwise reveals your true self: a cross-eyed, foaming at the mouth, tin foil
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Truly Boring is at it again. Nothing like trying to wriggle yourself out of that corner you have painted yourself in with a splash of colourful insult, eh?
For the record TS and I appreciate that the two or three brain cells that constitute your functioning neocortex, the MSM is essentially capitalist and ubiquitous and, in the context of this war, pro-Ukraine. In case that tiny organ that you call your brain has not grasped the point no socialist here has ever been pro-Ukraine any more than we are pro-Russia. We certainly don’t beat the war drum for anyone (unlike you our resident Putin bootlicker), We have consistently argued that the workers on both “sides” of this capitalist conflict have no interest whatsoever in fighting the cause of their respective capitalist warlords.
Name a single media outlet in the MSM spectrum that puts across this unique class-conscious anti-nationalist position of ours! You can’t can you? Selectively quoting from the MSM as we do (and as you do too!) is unavoidable for obvious reasons short of going to Ukraine yourself and doing some fact-checking on the ground yourself But at least we don’t rely on far-right conspiracy sites for our information as you do…
And finally, I repeat the point – if Kiew is fascist then so is Moscow and so are you! That would make you a Nazi foaming at the mouth in your lust to overthrow another Nazi regime. Not very consistent in the application of your ideological beliefs, are you?
Like I said before I don’t believe either Ukraine or Russia is a Nazi regime though they are definitely both repressive corrupt right-wing capitalist oligarchies that muzzle their opponents and crush free speech. But flinging around swearwords like “Nazi” without really even understanding what these words mean is rather like a kid hurling abuse at another kid in the school playground.
It is pretty obvious what Putin is trying to do in talking about “denazifying” Ukraine. He is trying to draw on the wartime associations of the german Nazi invasion of Russia and the bitter memories that still evokes in order to justify his own little imperialist gamble by invading Ukraine. And you, ever the useful idiot fall for it, hook line and sinker. How pathetic
Erm, no. Kiev is fascist, Moscow is not. To suggest otherwise reveals your true self: a cross-eyed, foaming at the mouth, tin foil
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This is the same dumb dreary argument you come out with time and time again. If Kyiv is fascist then so is Moscow! There is precious little to use to choose between these regimes – they are both far-right, repressive, authoritarian, capitalist oligarchies that outlaw dissent and muzzle political opponents.
It’s a case of pot calling the kettle black. Kyiv does not claim to be a fascist regime, of course – it asserts that it is part of the so-called democratic West defying a tyrant in the guise of Putin – so on what basis do you claim it is?? The fact that there are some self-identifying fascists in Ukraine (a distinct minority)? But there are also some self-identifying fascists in Russia as well, aren’t there?
It seems you are too stupid to be able to look beyond the labels – what people call themselves or what others chose to call them -and look at how regimes actually behave in practice. In practice, there is very little to differentiate these two capitalist regimes, one of which you avidly support as a far-right apologist for capitalism yourself
