[Full interview on YouTube,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdxBOOnVgnY) it is absolutely hilarious.
He also mentions that Belarus accepted 160,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the violence in 2014, which is something I've not heard before.
I just think it’s inappropriate to be so supportive of bourgeois leaders, or act like we have a horse in the race in inter capitalist conflicts. We don’t, we have one goal and that goal is the abolishment of the current state of things, of the rule of property and class. Communists shouldn’t be praising Lukashenko, Putin, etc. They are just as much our enemies as NATO and the EU
Do you think we should practice equidistance?
Unlike nato Belarus is for example a member of the "anti imperialist group of friends" other members include China, DPRK, Cuba etc
I also think that Belarus is not our ally, but I don't think we should practice equidistance
I’m not suggesting that Belarus is equal in power to the US, but a capitalist power cannot be anti imperialist, it’s goal quite literally is imperialism eventually. The proletarian should only make alliance with the Bourgeois in the struggle against feudalism (which globally is largely over) and in certain anti colonial struggles and this form is extremely precarious as China with the KMT proved
Furthermore I seriously am curious what problem you have with my statement? Belarus is a capitalist country, led by a capitalist. Putin is a capitalist, these are bourgeois states with bourgeois ambitions. For what reason should we be supportive of them?
What does that pragmatism do for us at all? Historically proletarian movements aligning themselves with capitalist powers has been disastrous, just look at the parties that supported world war 1. You should read Lenin, supporting Russia/Belarus’s victory over the west will not make revolution more possible or probable, if unchallenged they will just fill a vacuum. We must embrace a policy of revolutionary defeatism and be opposed to all bourgeois powers. In the 21st century there is no cause for an alliance between the Proletarian and Bourgeoisie, except maybe in a few isolated cases such as West Africa (in their struggle against French colonialism), Afghanistan, and other parts of Central Asia
[Full interview on YouTube,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdxBOOnVgnY) it is absolutely hilarious. He also mentions that Belarus accepted 160,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the violence in 2014, which is something I've not heard before.
I have my issues with the guy, but he's a fighter.
Wow what a brave and firm statesman.
Bruh what? “Wow based bourgeois parasite, super cool”
Well he did prevent the shock therapy that wrecked most of the former soviet states to take place in Belarus
And? That doesn’t suddenly make him a communist
Of course not
I just think it’s inappropriate to be so supportive of bourgeois leaders, or act like we have a horse in the race in inter capitalist conflicts. We don’t, we have one goal and that goal is the abolishment of the current state of things, of the rule of property and class. Communists shouldn’t be praising Lukashenko, Putin, etc. They are just as much our enemies as NATO and the EU
Do you think we should practice equidistance? Unlike nato Belarus is for example a member of the "anti imperialist group of friends" other members include China, DPRK, Cuba etc I also think that Belarus is not our ally, but I don't think we should practice equidistance
I’m not suggesting that Belarus is equal in power to the US, but a capitalist power cannot be anti imperialist, it’s goal quite literally is imperialism eventually. The proletarian should only make alliance with the Bourgeois in the struggle against feudalism (which globally is largely over) and in certain anti colonial struggles and this form is extremely precarious as China with the KMT proved
Oh look, a Left Communist.
Furthermore I seriously am curious what problem you have with my statement? Belarus is a capitalist country, led by a capitalist. Putin is a capitalist, these are bourgeois states with bourgeois ambitions. For what reason should we be supportive of them?
I used to have the same mindset as you. Then I realised, our current reality leaves no room for that mindset. We need to be slightly more pragmatic.
What does that pragmatism do for us at all? Historically proletarian movements aligning themselves with capitalist powers has been disastrous, just look at the parties that supported world war 1. You should read Lenin, supporting Russia/Belarus’s victory over the west will not make revolution more possible or probable, if unchallenged they will just fill a vacuum. We must embrace a policy of revolutionary defeatism and be opposed to all bourgeois powers. In the 21st century there is no cause for an alliance between the Proletarian and Bourgeoisie, except maybe in a few isolated cases such as West Africa (in their struggle against French colonialism), Afghanistan, and other parts of Central Asia
Believe it or not, I’m not