If it isn’t going to be violent what do you intend to do with all the fascists and counter revolutionaries? Putting them in prisons will require violence. You gonna just leave them out there doing their thing?

Just because you don’t know what a word means does not make the word not useful. Just because ignorant people misuse the word does not make the word meaningless.

When politically illiterate people use the word liberal to mean “progressive” they are just showing their ignorance. Liberalism is “progressive” when compared to absolute monarchy but that’s not saying much.

Hexbear users most certainly do not mean “neoliberalism” when they say “liberal.” Don’t project your ignorance on other people. Hexbear is a politically literate community.

Instead of writing this horribly ignorant comment you should have just gone and looked up what Liberalism is. The definition is like 3 clicks away.

You don’t build a “cohesive coalition” by inviting anyone with any ideology. If people don’t share views any “coalition” will tear itself apart.

Russia isn’t Socialist but they aren’t “authoritarian” because that word is literally meaningless. All governments are authoritarian. All governments by definition enforce law (the rules of society) and curtail the rights of the individual. (You’d probably be better off just removing the word from your lexicon)

Russia supports anti-imperialism in Africa and in some cases is directly supporting socialists like in Burkina Faso. Russia does have reactionary tendencies but systemic racism is not nearly as pronounced as in euro-american nations and it is mostly imported from the west. Anti-racism is one of the defining features that separates socialism from nazism.

Russia is far more likely to become socialist than any other developed countries. The war has shown them the advantages of a planned economy, state ownership of industry, and the detrimental cost of a privately owned national bank and their strong ties to China also act as a socialist influence. A loss in Ukraine would not help Russia back to socialism it would just get them broken up and turned into neo-colonies. (who would all be manipulated to fight amongst themselves by the CIA or redirected against China)

Russia also gives me the impression of being colonialist but I’m not sure if that’s accurate

no it isn’t accurate. Name one Russian colony. At the very worst you can call Russia expansionist because the people in areas they annex are granted full citizenship and all the privileges and rights that entails. Since the start of the SMO Russia has been paying pensions of elderly people in Donbas, people who never contributed to their economy. That is not the action of a colonialist.

FBI is female booty inspectors. Acronyms can mean 2 things. In the case of Lemmy ml is Marxist Leninist.

Stalinism is a thing. Just like Leninism, Maoism and Dengism are things. Each of them is just a interpretation of Marxism. They each critique, adapt and expand on the previous iterations of Marxism to fit new conditions.

This is Bizarro world vibes based history. Read a fucking book literally any book. Stalin lead the USSR after Lenin lead the revolution founded on the principles of communism which were developed by Marx.

Anything that threatens the western hegemony and imperialism must be destroyed because it threatens the comfortable life that the 1st world gets though neo-colonialism which is institutional racism at a international level.

Tankies want to make the first world share their treats with the “unwashed masses” of the third world and pay them a fair rate for their resources and labor.

“The electable left” (aka liberals, democratic voters, etc) are actually crypto-fascists. Fascism doesn’t attack the liberals way of life. It isn’t a serious threat to their treats so they don’t rail against it.

Why not just say #NukeTheWorld?

Also American jets need Pristine runways to take off. Ukraine couldn’t use F16s if they had them even if they had trained pilots.