+1 to joining a youth organization. That’s the single best thing you can do. As individuals we’re weak, ineffectual and alone. Only by joining the collective bodies of the organized working class can we really aid the cause and develop as communist personalities.
Depending on where you live you can also try organizing your school if you’re still going. I have plenty of young comrades that joined by people organizing their schools and student bodies.
I’m not gonna make the point that it is inter-imperialistic, but imo while what you’re saying about the history of the conflict is correct, it only proves aggression and imperialistic drive by NATO, it doesn’t prove or disprove the “Russia is imperialist” side of the argument. NATO being the primary aggressor and being imperialist itself doesn’t mean Russia can’t also be imperialist, at least not if we talk about imperialism in a Marxist sense. Because in that sense imperialism isn’t when aggression or expansion, it is a stage of development and the way countries at the stage of monopoly capitalism relate to other countries. It’s fundamentally about surplus value extraction. Again, here I’m not making the argument that Russia is, I just don’t think you really made the argument why it isn’t.
I also don’t think categorizing the conflict as inter-imperialist would make a ‘both-sides equal’ argument, because, again, imperialism in the Marxist sense isn’t really a normative term and not derogatory, but a technical descriptor.
It also wouldn’t negate the possibly positive ramifications of this war. Those things can coexist.
I ultimately don’t think it really matters all that much either to communists outside of Ukraine and Russia. Communists in the US, Germany or wherever have to fight their domestic class antagonist. Liebknecht’s parole is applicable as ever - Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land! The main enemy is at home!
If this debate at all distracts us from fighting that main enemy, it has fulfilled its purpose. Whether or not Russia is at the stage of development we call imperialism is immaterial to our day to day praxis in our communities.
According to the organizers about 10-12000 people showed up, according to police 4.3k. The International Rosa Luxemburg Conference the day before had a record number of attendants at over 3000 in person and over 15000 online. Pretty good numbers for events with an actual peace message during these times. Bourgeois media is ofc ignoring them for the most part.
Any Fr*nch comrades on here? Is this guy based? I’ve seen a couple quotes from him over the past week and he seems dangerously based for a Western European left-winger
Funny as, but the cuts and the interviewers loaded questions really aren’t doing him any favor. Anyone who watches this and isn’t a comrade already will just see this as some absurd curiosity unfortunately. The wall thing is suicide in any but the most niche contexts.
Just filter by “Local” for now, that’s pretty much /all for the lemmygrad instance. “All” is for other instances too and “Subscribed” is, well, what you’re subscribed to.
Where do you get the impression from that the people rose up and overthrew their governments?