Thomas_More
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” Much more likely that Putin gets ousted than Zelenskyy.”
I don’t know how you can believe that. One might as well say that Xi will be ousted. Putin is considered a god by 9 out of 10 Russians. His army is bulldozing Ukraine, in spite of western weapons.
Exactly as I would say, Robbo.
The best thing for Ukraine and for all of us now would be for the Ukrainians to oust Zelensky and agree to Putin’s demands, ending the war.
By the way, I see warmonger Merz failed to get the majority he needed to become Chancellor, so far. Also, that an anti-Brussels pro-Hungary candidate won the first round of the Romanian election, which buggers NATO’s plans for leverage in the Black Sea. Good news, even though he’s called a “right extremist.” (Nothing more extremist than the Brussels, Paris and London gang!)
I always say better a “fascist” who calls for peace than a “democrat” who calls for war!
I don’t feel this is likely, not with stronger ties with China and the ever stronger support of what Putin calls “the global south.”
I thought the collapse came with the end of the U.S.S.R., and that now we are seeing the fall of the European Union, which is losing members like Hungary, Slovakia and Romania, presaging the eventual disintegration of NATO.
Russia is seemingly recovering, but in the shade of China, while the USA is increasingly chaotic.
Trump throws in his lot with Ukraine after all.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250505/is-trump-selling-out-to-zelensky-and-neocons-1121984537.html
But why are Hungary and Slovakia pro-Russia? Why are the right wing (so-called) parties pro-Russia? One may say it’s because they’re not in power, but they are in Hungary and Slovakia, and remain opposed to a war with Russia.
With the former Soviet bloc countries like the Baltics and Poland being the most antagonistic to Russia, do we know why Hungary and Slovakia are the opposite? (With Romania maybe soon to follow)?
And why is it the “ultra”(?)-nationalist parties across Europe who are the most vociferously anti-war? (While leftists and centrists scream “fascism” at them)?
I read that there was more nationalisation under the KMT than there was under Mao.
Many among the national bourgeoisie, very weak in the 1930s, increasingly preferred the Red areas, if they could reach them, and moved to the Japanese areas if not, rather than stay in the KMT, the same study said. I don’t know if it was true.
It was the foreign bourgeoisie that preferred Chiang, although he personally despised them. They had initially feared him as “The Red General.”
It is logical, in that the national bourgeoisie was in a class war with the gentry, most of whom had decided to run with the Right KMT after the April coup of 1927 ousted the “Communists” from the KMT.
For the “Communists” the ‘nation’ came first against everyone. The Reds were far more nationalist than the “Nationalists” were. This attracted the home-grown bourgeoisie.
Comrade Delta affair? What’s that?
In the town where I was a student, the SWP and (presumably) other leftists had taken my (unofficial) spot one day, where I had a placard with the badges we used to sell and an armful of Socialist Standards. So I set up nearby.
Two policemen dispersed the leftists, but just walked by me and let me remain. We are obviously no threat.Later I read about an Austrian comrade who had a spot by himself in Vienna with his own material (as he was all alone), and continued with it after the Anschluss and so on, throughout the war, and was simply ignored by the authorities!
1990s. To be fair, the students had to put up with the monopolisation of the word “socialism” by lots of “Citizen Smith”-garbed SWPers, who shouted in their faces every time they walked by the entrance to the library.
It is no wonder there was graffiti exclaiming “SOCIALIST BASTARDS!”
And my SPGB flyers were also defaced because of that.My ads for meetings were finally published by the university chaplain in his weekly Anglican paper.
The student union was implacably and abusively hostile.I was mocked at university when students found out I was a socialist. One put on a flat cap and faked a stereotypical northern accent:
“Ee, by gum. Sohcialist be thee, ay.”
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