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by pelasaco 1117 days ago
> Russia. Left. With Putin. And Aleksander Dugin.

Why do you think he is right? Raised and Educated in the Soviet Union, he tries to revive the soviet union, a socialist/communist dream.

> Aleksander Dugin

The guy that created the National Bolshevik Party, which historically defended Stalinism?

> Please, don't use drugs.

I don't do it, that's for communists ;)
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anthk 1117 days ago
>He tries... He tries to revive the damn Tsarist Russia, totally opposite to the Communist values. It's closer to your conservative values.

>That's for... Yeah, as cocaine for CEO's in the 70's, very commie like.

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pelasaco 1116 days ago
Cocaine was everywhere in the 70s, but mostly the Californian CEOs in the 70s were commies.. so thats kind of inline with what I said.
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anthk 1116 days ago
You can't be a Commie and a CEO.

These were Capitalists. A progressive capitalist, yes, but Right leaned economically. There's nothing Leftie on being a poshy Californian with the pockets full of bucks even if you don't give a shit on any religion or Conservativism.

The same way you can't call yourself a vegetarian when you eat a weekly BBQ in a Texan rancho.

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pelasaco 1116 days ago
That's where you are totally wrong. Mostly people that are communists, don't live under communist regimes. Never went to a communist country. They are mostly rich kids, that "read" Marx and thought they "got it". Funny part is that Marx himself was the same kind of person. Rich kid, never worked and thought that he understood the world enough to try to fix it..
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anthk 1116 days ago
In America, maybe. In Europe, the social-democracy it's a big spectrum.

There's the liberal left, the tankie left, the conservative left (which in the end it's 99% close to the Italian/Spanish Fascism), and the libertarian communism, also known as Anarchist comunes, but you need highly educated people there. No, not rich, just truly educated. In scientific and technological fields.

On Russia, today they're closer to fascism than to Socialism. No one it's Communist in the Putin/Dugin circle. No one. Just thugs, corporate mafias and a right wing nationalism with an homophobe discurse against the West, influenced by the Russian Orthodox church.

Not so different to the Evangelican Neocon from the USA. Switch the American flags on a Neocon for the Russian one, change a little bit its Christian branch and you'll get the Russian Ivan full of hate against Western progress since the 1789's revolution and Human Rights. It probably listens to the Orthodox Pope and he listens to the Russian equivalent of Fox News. Oh, they have their version of Alex Jones, too. With the same conspiranoic crap.

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pelasaco 1116 days ago
it is actually not different than Soviet Union under Staling. So wasn't Staling a Socialist?

Check this out: " LGBT themes and issues faced increasing official government censorship and a uniformly harsher policy across the entire Soviet Union. Homosexuality was officially labelled a disease and a mental disorder in the late 1920s (specifically over a period from 1927 to 1930)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_Russia. People keep trying to avoid call Left by their name. You cannot simply start to call everything bad Right and the Heaven Left. Its absurd.

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