Putin gained mass support because he sided with the nationalists that kicked out the western imperialists that were looting the remnants of the former USSR’s industry. The 90s were a period of violent reaction, devastation, and incredible poverty for the whole of Eastern Europe. The liberals want to capitulate to the west, and repeat the 90s. The nationalists want to retain the status quo, where the wealthy Russian capitalists retain their hold but without handing over everything to western imperialism. The leftists want socialism again, and this number is rising dramatically:
Trying to understand complex geopolitical issues through a frame of “good vs evil,” rather than a class analysis, pushes you into all forms of absurd contradictions. You need to understand, in Russia hardly anyone supports the liberals, so the nationalists are seen as the best thing by most people outside of the growing Russian left. That’s why Putin keeps winning elections.
Final tidbit, leftists are far better than fascists, and it isn’t even close to comparable. The idea that we are “no better than fascists” just because we disagree with your analysis is wrong, the left stands for progress and the end of western imperialism, we support the working class, not the imperialists and the capitalists.
Putin gained mass support because he sided with the nationalists that kicked out the western imperialists that were looting the remnants of the former USSR’s industry. The 90s were a period of violent reaction, devastation, and incredible poverty for the whole of Eastern Europe. The liberals want to capitulate to the west, and repeat the 90s. The nationalists want to retain the status quo, where the wealthy Russian capitalists retain their hold but without handing over everything to western imperialism. The leftists want socialism again, and this number is rising dramatically:
Trying to understand complex geopolitical issues through a frame of “good vs evil,” rather than a class analysis, pushes you into all forms of absurd contradictions. You need to understand, in Russia hardly anyone supports the liberals, so the nationalists are seen as the best thing by most people outside of the growing Russian left. That’s why Putin keeps winning elections.
Final tidbit, leftists are far better than fascists, and it isn’t even close to comparable. The idea that we are “no better than fascists” just because we disagree with your analysis is wrong, the left stands for progress and the end of western imperialism, we support the working class, not the imperialists and the capitalists.