You wouldn’t think of a European community of being so insanely pro Russia, yet on every single post mentioning Russia, any negative comments about Russia or their government will get downvoted to hell, some people get banned. I would not be surprised if I am banned or downvoted for posting this. People who are not just blatantly spamming Kremlin propaganda, please say why you are so pro Russia, to someone confused.
For any people reading this, it’s basic but holy shit It’s seem too advanced for poor western brain: Communist doesn’t need to only support communists and doesn’t need to support everything that a communists do, it’s not RED vs BLUE for fuck sake, if it’s was no communist would support Palestine.
However, a communist friend of mine did say that aligning with groups that oppose “Western Imperialism” was deliberately part of the the communist party’s strategy, as in, any effort that can undermine it should be supported, overlooking everything else. Hence why you won’t ever see them talk ill publicly of Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, etc.
The only reason people withold criticising those countries on some issues is because the West will use that as a pretext to genocide them. It’s like discussing “how to improve the Jewish community” during the Holocaust.
Those things can wait until the countries have finally liberated themselves from Western imperialism. Without that they’ll never be able to take any serious steps before being moved back to the start.
Coincidentally that’s also the reason most Westerners are conditioned to constantly talk ill of those countries. They have to liberate
IraqAfghanistanSyriaLibyaIranAn excellent article about this pertaining the Middle-East: Arabs and Muslims: The Real Victims of Modern Antisemitism
Yes, some communists do support some of that but not because of ideology but for a strategic reason, the part of “overlooking everything else” is completely bullshit.
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You won’t see communists to that much because liberals already do that endlessly for all the wrong reasons.
That “communist” ‘friend’ either never heard of critical support, or vastly misunderstands it.
I generally support Russia. And Ukraine. Because the more resources spent on the pointless war the fewer resources can be spent internally in those countries to resist popular revolution.
It’s not overlooking the bad that either government does, it is simply supporting them and the actions they perform that happen to align with the wider goal of global revolution.