Pol Pot also defined himself as Marxist-Leninist. I feel like lines are being blurred everywhere.

Does Lukashenko deserve our critical support in defiance of Western hegemony?

  • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    'Critical support or not' is often framed like 'is this a good guy or a bad guy' and that's a very stupid POV. That said, if it were fascist paramilitaries and rich profiteers being corrupt in Belarus, we in the US would never hear about it and that should tell you something.

    • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      if it were fascist paramilitaries and rich profiteers being corrupt in Belarus, we in the US would never hear about it and that should tell you something.

      Eh, this is not entirely true, Russia has plenty of rich profiteers

      • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        like Bill Browder, an American who has been canonized by the Russiagaters

        are the russiagaters really complaining about the lack of oligarchs in russia, or is putin just a convenient scapegoat?

        even if they are, it should also be understood that russian oligarchs oppose American ones, unlike many other oligarchs around the world