russian fascism is definitely an issue where russia could improve, but not nearly the same as ukraine just being massively filled with armed nazi battallions

[–] awth13@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Both are the same but one is maybe slightly better” doesn’t quite ring the same as “absolutely crushing Nazis wherever they can”, does it?

Anyone, especially anyone into dialectical materialism, who lived in Russia or otherwise heavily interacted with the Russian world will tell you that the issues of xenophobia, race supremacy, nationalism, revanchism, monarchy and empire idealisation, etc. run deep in the Russian society and government (similarities to a certain other European country in the 1930s unintentional). Fascism is not a single wart on the body of Russia, it’s a disease that has spread throughout. Framing it as something that “Russia could improve” is not wrong but is misleading – like saying that Christian fanaticism is something that the US could improve when it is one of the defining features of the US as a state and country.

[–] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

very true, i agree. Its sad too that the communist parties are nothing more than controlled opposition who do more nationalist pandering than actual organizing. I hope for things to get better, but im running out of hope lol.

god i miss lenin, stalin, and the bolsheviks

[–] awth13@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The saddest part for me is that even grassroots Russian communist spaces fall into *phobic rhetoric when it comes to immigrants or queer people. I also can’t imagine things getting better at this point.

[–] TheGenderWitch@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

all that can be done is to build those forces when possible and to aid fellow LGBTQ when possible.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah this is true. There is a reason the American right have a crush on them. There is a serious rot in there thats been festering since the fall of USSR.