According to him, the country’s economy “hit rock bottom” in the first quarter, which could lead to a crisis.
Zyuganov also suggested that the situation this fall could resemble the events of 1917, when the communists came to power.
Video with English subtitles available here: https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3mk3d7tu6m22v
A communist coup in Moscow would be a bit on the nose, but I’d allow it
Ill pencil it in for early October
do they have policies? i’m genuinely interested
and the commie lemmings should review them
who? KPRF? not really, they are putinist puppets and controlled opposition
From what Ive heard there are genuine communist working underground in Russia.
“He emphasized that such a scenario must not be allowed to happen.”
Controlled opposition.
leader of a communist party warns against starting a communist revolution
mrw
MLs are always controlled opposition (and always have been), just look at how quickly they team up with capitalists to take out any real socialists.
…such as?
Spain, Korea, Ukraine, the Soviets.
Any attempt at putting the workers in charge instead of the state is met with violence.
It’s not controlled in the sense that capitalist control them, it’s just controlled in the sense that the state requires private property & structurally state-capitalism is closer to liberal-capitalism, so you get less pushback from the cops, bureaucrats, bosses & other assorted middle managers that still get to live off labor of the workers.
I figured you’d mention Spain, but I’m not sure what you’re referring to in Korea. It was the Americans and South Koreans putting down workers uprisings there. As for Spain, the Anarchists weren’t ever going to manage to beat the Nationalists.
What you’re failing to understand is that in the context of imperialism, and the imperial boot, such decentralized anti-authoritarian revolutions are impossible. That’s why none of them ever worked, while all the revolutions that succeeded had to take measures to ensure their survival. Look at Poland and Solidarnosc - an anti-authoritarian labour movement, ergo a good thing, right? Except the result wasn’t liberation or socialism, but another loyal member of the imperial core, happy to help keep the boot of capital on the necks of the world proletariat.
If you guys ever manage to get off the ground and get a workers’ federation going, I’ll be the first to support you, and if you have to make a secret police to suppress the counterrevolutionaries, I’ll keep my atodasos to a minimum. In the meanwhile, Marxism-Leninism is the only thing that’s ever worked.
Man pick up a history book, you might learn something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People's_Association_in_Manchuria
As for Spain, the Anarchists weren’t ever going to manage to beat the Nationalists.
Lol, as if the betrayal by the USSR didn’t decimate both the troops and their moral.
Except the result wasn’t liberation or socialism, but another loyal member of the imperial core, happy to help keep the boot of capital on the necks of the world proletariat.
Lol, it was just switching one imperialist capitalist boot for another. You have to be real stupid to consider the USSRs treatment of Eastern Europe as anything but imperialism.
Or it’s treatment of workers as anything but capitalism, just capitalism managed by the state.
Marxism-Leninism is the only thing that’s ever worked.
🤣🤣🤣
Yeah China will be socialist any day now 🤣🤣🤣
Why isn’t the USSR on any maps anymore?
How come Vietnam is liberalizing?
Some good points, but your inappropriate “lols” and hysterically laughing emojis are tiresome, especially considering the topic
The USSR’s treatment of eastern Europe was characterized by a net outflow of resources from the USSR to the Warsaw Pact, and within the USSR from the RFSFR to the other SSRs. In fact, a large part of the dissolution of the USSR was that Russian nationalists didn’t want to share that wealth. This was very, very different from capitalist imperialism in which wealth is extracted from the periphery.
Once again, I ask you what libertarian socialists have ever achieved. Have they ever acted as a geopolitical counterbalance to the US? Did they beat the nazis? Did they ever raise the literacy rates and raise the workers and peasants out of poverty? No, because they’ve only ever controlled a small region within one country during a civil war, and usually ended up losing. Come back to me with some concrete achievements, otherwise you’re just a useful idiot for imperialism.
Did they ever raise the literacy rates and raise the workers and peasants out of poverty?
Litterally yes, not just in Spain, but also in Korea & Ukraine then the MLs betrayed them and gave the farms back to the owners, because authoritarian “socialism” only exists to replace capitalist oppression with state regulated capitalist oppression, because it’s more paletable to the capitalist class, that’s why they’re happy to collaborate with them, to put down any sort of independent worker movement.
MLs = Marxist-Leninist?
Yup
Haha I’d never heard that take before. I’m curious about two things. 1) How do you define MLs? 2) What would real socialism entail? I’m guessing with those answers I should have a good idea what you’re talking about.
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Anyone who self-identifies as an ML, such as the part mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation
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Workers being in control of the means of production, like actually not in some “the party represents the workers BS”.
- cooperatives & unions control job sites - real unions not yellow unions
- workers control the economy via some real mechanism not 1 party elections with per-determined outcomes (Could be state-less - e.g Anarchy, could be state-full e.g some form of democratic socialism, will probably be a mix of both)
- the people that work farms control them and are not forced to give back the farms to capitalists like the USSR did in Spain.
Hell yeah💪. I personally agree with how you define socialism. I’m a reddit refugee lol. They are all LMs and Stalinists over there.
TankieJerk was a fun sub at least.
their definition of socialism is just market socialism.
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Isn’t that party in Russia super pro-government? Essentially controlled oposition?
Warns of the Risk of a Revolution in Russia
Isn’t it, like, his job to make this happen?
I’m pretty sure any real communists in Russia would be brutally repressed.
It’d be nice is Russia can take back itself from that dick-tater… Get rid of all of Putin’s ilk, elect a decent person as president., power wash the stench away, peace talks with their neighbors, condemnation of the US Pedo Party. All that good stuff.
Highly doubt it will happen.
Damn, I want that for the US!
Take it back to what, though? The 1990s? I guess that’d be an improvement. What they really need is progress. Is there any kind of progressive movement in Russia?
Oh, soviet union 2. Now with more soviets.
Soviet Union 2: Electric Bogaloo.
Electric Gulag-loo
God damn, that was a good one!!
Russian jokes still write themselves
Oh well. As a certain ballistic missile submarine Captain once observed: A revolution every now and again, is a healthy thing.
Simpsons did it
Communism sucks but even that would be better than Putin.
Right after the November elections. Hold out just a little longer guys and you will get your pound of flesh. We hit them all at the same time.
Good wipe Putin off the map
Mmm … no. No, they just don’t do that sort of thing in Russia.
I support it. I have no love for the early USSR, but I see its fall as a historical tragedy
He is such a rat
Russian people, its time for another red october, make lenin alive again!
