Anarchist Viewpoints On The War In Ukraine - From Ukraine, Russia, And Belarus
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Some American “anarchists”, like their “conservative” counterparts, have been fooled into supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - or at least not supporting the fight of the Ukrainian people against it. Yes, Ukraine isn’t much of a democracy, yes, the government is corrupt and is run by wealthy kleptocrats for the purpose of stealing more money from the people, but Putin and his government are far, far worse, and they would extinguish whatever exists of democracy in Ukraine and make it a vassal state of their “Greater Eurasian Empire”, in fact they would exterminate every element of anarchist resistance which they could find - and there’s plenty of evidence that this is exactly their intent. So it’s entirely legit for anarchists to fight against Russian imperialism, not only in Ukraine, but in Belarus and Russia itself. And far too many American “anarchists” have been turned into corporatist, authoritarian stooges, fighting against everything that they loudly have proclaimed themselves to be for, hence the phenomena of “Antifa” fighting working class people, and destroying their small businesses in favor of corporatist hegemons and oligarchs - by whom they are richly funded. “No War But Class War” in the US has taken on an ironic meaning, it’s the elite university-educated bourgeoisie fighting against the working class, to further state capitalist domination - and then supporting people like Putin, with his coterie of hegemons and oligarchs, against the working class of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia…
Anarchist Viewpoints On The War In Ukraine - From Ukraine, Russia, And Belarus
Anarchist Viewpoints On The War In Ukraine …
Anarchist Viewpoints On The War In Ukraine - From Ukraine, Russia, And Belarus
Some American “anarchists”, like their “conservative” counterparts, have been fooled into supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - or at least not supporting the fight of the Ukrainian people against it. Yes, Ukraine isn’t much of a democracy, yes, the government is corrupt and is run by wealthy kleptocrats for the purpose of stealing more money from the people, but Putin and his government are far, far worse, and they would extinguish whatever exists of democracy in Ukraine and make it a vassal state of their “Greater Eurasian Empire”, in fact they would exterminate every element of anarchist resistance which they could find - and there’s plenty of evidence that this is exactly their intent. So it’s entirely legit for anarchists to fight against Russian imperialism, not only in Ukraine, but in Belarus and Russia itself. And far too many American “anarchists” have been turned into corporatist, authoritarian stooges, fighting against everything that they loudly have proclaimed themselves to be for, hence the phenomena of “Antifa” fighting working class people, and destroying their small businesses in favor of corporatist hegemons and oligarchs - by whom they are richly funded. “No War But Class War” in the US has taken on an ironic meaning, it’s the elite university-educated bourgeoisie fighting against the working class, to further state capitalist domination - and then supporting people like Putin, with his coterie of hegemons and oligarchs, against the working class of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia…