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The Democratic candidate for the senate, Abdul El-Sayed, is now begging the Zionists for forgiveness for his anti-Israel stance. He says, "I made a mistake." (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 1 point 3 days ago (4 children)

Iran is a theocracy and Russia is capitalist. They aren't good, they are currently resisting imperialism. Hence why support for them is critical support.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

    support for anything is critical support, when should our support ever be uncritical? this smells like idealism that we should only really put our true support behind perfect dictatorships of the proletariat, leave the Iranians and Russians to deal with their internal problems. Imperialism has risen to become the principal contradiction of capitalism, Russia and Iran literally are examples of anti-capitalist countries. And the theocracy bullshit I hear from westerners is exaggerated propaganda they probably picked up from Israeli edited wikipedia. Iran is probably the best country in terms of religious freedom and human rights in all of West Asia.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    How is Russia anti-capitalist? They are anti-imperialist at the moment, which is not the same thing.

    when should our support ever be uncritical?

    leave the Iranians and Russians to deal with their internal problems.

    You can't say all support is critical, then in the next breath say any criticism (of Russia for being capitalist, or Iran for being a theocracy) is impermissible interference in a country's internal affairs.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    Russia and Iran are anti-capitalist because they're anti-imperialist and anti-imperialism is essential for the current form of capitalism to continue existing and imperialism must be defeated for socialist revolution to become possible. Your whining about Russia and Iran being bad and how awful it is for you to support them only serves to promote a paternalistic colonialist attitude among leftists in the global North towards the global South. You cannot affect politics in Iran or Russia, only Iranians and Russians can cause that change so stay in your lane unless you've done real historical materialist analysis of the conditions of those countries instead of calling them "bad".

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