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To be honest, I would have preferred seeing more leftists take a neutral approach to the Russo-Ukrainian war than siding with Ukraine. ‘Both sides are wrong’ is still an oversimplification and not the best approach to take, but it’s at least easier to understand than siding with a pro-NATO dictatorship of the bourgeoisie that has been lousy with neofascists for at least a decade.
Yeah, like i understand the optics about big country attacking small country that makes western leftists side with Ukraine, but i don’t understand how then they completely ignore the US role in this.
It pretty much declares that western “leftists” are really “right-wing” in a global context and only “left-wing” in their local context, they only want to reap the benefits of western imperialism along with their capitalist overlords, they give no shit about the global class struggle. Yanis Varoufakis is the prime example of this.
The “labor aristocracy” theory was way more correct than Engels or Lenin could ever have imagined.
They are “Leftists in name only”