I’m so fucking tired of all of this, they literally attempted to hit Kremlin with drone before a week and Russia still didn’t curb stomp them for some reason. Hundreds are dying in Donbas still, this has been going on since 2014, Donbas is still not free, soldiers are dying, I don’t even know at this point. What’s the problem in just evaporating Kiev, clown and his neo nazi regime and be done with it? I don’t even know how their army is still functionally operating after all the weapons and infrastructure destroyed and crippled, hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed and hundreds dying daily.

Hordes of nazis on the internet and news don’t show signs of stopping of talking about Ukraine 24/7 even after more than a year of this madness.

I literally can’t take it anymore, when will this end?

    • @Lemmy_Mouse@lemmygrad.ml
      13•1 year ago

      Ignoring reality and “helping as many people as possible”

      How then can they help if they do not know what is happening? Capitalism is an interwoven system, it is not simply national and international, they are connected. The masses do not ignore this war, we cannot either. How else would we answer their questions about it?

      The problem with liberally helping everyone as much as possible is the pette bourgeois are people…the bourgeois are people…this is an aimless statement. Nothing can change if we are not purposeful nor strategic with our actions. This is how one avoids what I like to call hippieism, but really it’s just plain social liberalism.

        • @Lemmy_Mouse@lemmygrad.ml
          9•1 year ago

          Helping the working class is important, but it depends on how we are helping each other. The aliments inflicted upon us from capitalism require surgery not a bandaid. The bandaid simply promotes the future existence of another bandaid when the wound fails to heal, and another, and another. The misery accumulates. Giving the masses food, shelter, water, etc…is just as important as giving them education, guidance, solidarity, etc…One without the other and we’re just helping the capitalists by being social democrats. Our goal isn’t to lube the system, make it less agonizing so workers enjoy being exploited, it’s to aid in our liberation from capitalism, towards controlling the means of production. This requires praxis, not simply helping the needy. To be a communist is not to be an NGO. This is my point.

            • @Lemmy_Mouse@lemmygrad.ml
              11•1 year ago

              You’re getting there, however you contradicted yourself by stating reforms as a solution among normal solutions. Reforms to ease the suffering is simply reinforcing the system. We can ease the suffering while building revolution, it’s a tactic called dual power. Constant protests simply tire people out and dilute the message with inaction. In the long term and in principle we do not support bourgeois Russia, however in their anti-imperialist struggle against imperial capital we must support Russia. The US global hegemony must be shattered for the liberation of the global south from the yoke of US capital. Yes Russia will be a problem in the future, but that does not mean we do not support the death of the US empire today at the hands of them. They are not ideal but they are what the world has right now. Another reason for us to build faster. Besides these points I believe we agree.

                • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
                  11•1 year ago

                  much as people in the left hate to hear it - is very clearly a bourgeois state capitalist nation from every angle I’ve looked at it from

                  This conclusion is very much in tune with Western leftism and is indeed the dominant position of the western left (from anarchists through ‘progressive’ liberals and ‘Marxists’ to Mao-Zedong-ists). It is only principled Marxist-Leninists, Third Worldists, and global south Marxists who argue that China really is socialist.

                  You should read more about this topic and look at it from yet further angles. But you will have to be careful with your sources. Roland Boer’s Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners could be a good place to start. He talks about the book in this video: https://youtu.be/mgcyqkEOhQc

                  Alternatively, you could watch the conference papers from the People’s Forum:

                  Here’s the whole conference: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlpc6eFEd8ot2Nm89KxgYYmduHvdhmhli

                  Marxists cannot allow themselves to be duped by narratives and frameworks that are created and pushed by Western imperialists.

                  Grover Furr is renowned for criticising the anti-Soviet / anti-Stalin paradigm. He explains how ‘Soviet studies’, etc, is really ‘anti-Soviet propaganda studies’. It is impossible to get an accurate picture of the Soviet Union by relying mainly on Western sources, even (especially?) academic sources.

                  See one of Furr’s talks, here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccmj2Lj5jB0&pp=ygULR3JvdmVyIGZ1cnI%3D

                  Likewise, it is impossible to get an accurate picture of China by reading Western sources. Most of what passes for journalism and academic literature is merely propaganda, written by people who haven’t visited China, don’t read Chinese, and don’t understand Marxism. It’s possible to write good stuff with just one of these traits, but it’s impossible without any of them. And most westerners tick none of these boxes.

                  As Furr argues, ‘evidence’ is the most radical word in the English language. Anyone who looks honestly for and at the evidence will become a communist. And in this instance, I propose that if you look for the evidence, you will come to a different conclusion on China.

                  You might also enjoy Carlos L Garrido’s new book, The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism.

                • @redtea@lemmygrad.ml
                  7•1 year ago

                  You might want to find a copy of Lenin, ‘The Dual Power’. It’s from Pravda, 9 April 2917, if that helps narrow down the search.

                  His ‘April Theses’ may be easier to find, if not.