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I mean, if the militia is marching with red and black flags and stuff without a doubt you’re right. I think there’s an assumption a lot of people are making that I’m suggesting forming a communist militia, but that’s not the case - the militia would absolutely have to be outwardly apolitical.

No doubt - and to be clear, I don’t think the answer to labor organization is always a militia, and it’s definitely not an explicitly left militia. The only situation where this would work is an outwardly non-political (in the American sense) militia

I don’t think there’s any reason they couldn’t do that, legally

This would be more annoying if we didn’t have the megas as like our little clubhouse- seems I’ve only seen lemmygrad posters with similar sensibilities in there

please blur my face this is doxing

You know they teach about it in China, right? You’re so far up your own ass you’re just telling stories about stories you’ve been told and none of them have anything to do with reality.

you get that “tankie” and “communist” as a pejorative are functionally identical, right? Coincidentally, they’re also basically the same as “woke” as far as pejoratives go.

goddamn i hate it when liberals think they’re communists

it’s actually bad when good things happen

just insisting that you’re right doesn’t actually work

this stupid bastard has spent three thousand dollars to get chilis employees to microwave things for him remotely

Why avoid forming militias because they might be banned or regulated?

Anything that weakens capitalism is good, comrade, particularly if it’s capitalists on both sides doing it. It’s a terrible tragedy that lives are lost but we can’t stop that.

That kind of initiative is worthy of promotion

A multipolar world will have less ability to crush leftist governments without consequence. This isn’t the solution to capitalism, but it weakens it. This is a domino, not the final blow.

I guess you think kings were oligarchs too? Oligarchs are not in the government but exert undue influence on it. If they’re in the state then they’re just state actors in some form or another.

I think it’s pretty evident that the western hegemony has already been greatly weakened by the conflict. While it’s true Russia isn’t trying to weaken capitalism, capitalist hegemony is a completely separate issue - Russia’s actions are weakening western hegemony. Capitalism is a domino later in the chain. Africa breaking the neocolonial chains and hopefully being able to develop itself into the economic powerhouse it could be will be a massive boon to everywhere that isn’t The West, because it’s a new market and trading partner that doesn’t require westerners to get their cut.

As far as the global south, the benefits don’t really have anything to do with Russia getting more territory. The benefits are about demonstrating western weapons and tactics to be paper tigers, showing how shallow western weapons supplies are and how slow and unproductive western military industrial complexes are. It’s also showing the value of western promises of military support - Taiwan and every other western vassal are surely watching this. The conflict is bleeding NATO resources dry, which is the reverse of what NATO hoped they would be getting out of this. The exposure of the west’s weakness is what benefits the global south and the rest of the planet.

I think it’s certainly true that Russia is now and will be feared in Europe, but that ship had already sailed. The US is doing as much economic warfare against Europe as they are Russia, and Europe is the one seriously damaged by it. America also started that warfare before this conflict expanded in 2022 - trying to cut Russia out of the European market has always been important for the US State Department. Europe has lost their energy sovereignty and is now undergoing shock doctrine style de-industrialization. It’s not going to matter what Europe thinks about Russia as they get increasingly economically hobbled and poorer. The rest of the world however doesn’t share Europe or America’s view of Russia, so this is not really any loss for Russia geopolitically. In South America and Africa, for example, Russia is largely viewed positively. The people of the world know whose heel is on their necks - it’s not Russia’s.

If you’re calling the person who occupies the political seat of power an oligarch I think you’re stretching the definition too much.