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I just don't see why any of your comment is relevant to the situation today, after Putin has been in power for 25 years. If something has a pro-Putin bias nowad

I just don't see why any of your comment is relevant to the situation today, after Putin has been in power for 25 years. If something has a pro-Putin bias nowadays, that's a right wing bias, because he's clearly part of the right wing. I don't think he was ever a communist. Soviet Russia was a single party state, so people with ambitions had to join it. I don't know much about Maduro or Thunberg and don't see why they're relevant.

spwa4 1y ago
> I don't think he was ever a communist. I don't understand. He was a card-carrying member of the communist party who committed (a lot of) violence on behalf of communism/socialism. If THAT doesn't make someone a communist, then what does? And if anyone who does things wrong is not a leftist, then of course that must extend to everyone, including of course non-leftists. Do Trump's actions also have zero bearing on the GOP then? Did Hitler unfairly give racists a bad name? > I don't know much about Maduro or Thunberg and don't see why they're relevant. Obviously because they're leftist icons, and because communist news defends them despite, especially for Maduro, some rather serious shortcomings. https://marxist.com/down-with-us-imperialist-aggression-hands-off-venezuela.htm https://marxist.com/down-with-us-imperialist-aggression-hand... Oh ... about that Putin, he is a great defender against American imperialism! https://marxist.com/crisis-capitalism-tasks-marxists-1-2009.htm https://marxist.com/crisis-capitalism-tasks-marxists-1-2009....