There is this video of a member of the communist party and Puting where ones speaks to the latter of “impmementing socialism”, or at least some policies, and Putin responds positively. So a comrade can dream I guess?
Yes, comrade Zyuganov brought up implementing Socialist economics to counter the economic sanctions at one of their party faction head meetings a little while back. Putin seemed to give some sort of positive acknowledgement but I see this as just realpolitik. The CPRF is the second largest party in the Russian Federation and the main opposition, now is a time where Putin needs as much unity within the country as he can get, so there’s no way he’s going to outright disagree or shoot down ideas from any of the factions at such a time, especially those that are already backing him on the current international situation. Putin isn’t dumb, I’m sure he’s well aware that after a certain point of isolation from the west, a neoliberal economy isn’t going to cut it anymore, so best case scenario he’s just saying he’s open for dialogue if the need arises later on.
I think what you are seeing there more reflects the fact that Putin has no real ideology whatsoever. He does change course when events make clear that the current way of running things is untenable; but otherwise, he tends to stick (whenever possible) with the current way of doing things. Such pragmatism alone makes him leagues better than any other major post-Soviet leader, Lukashenko excepted. But it still doesn’t qualify him as a comrade, unfortunately.
I wish, so badly, that Putin was based.
He’s far from a comrade, make no mistake. But it would be so much more satisfying critically supporting Russia if he was.
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There is this video of a member of the communist party and Puting where ones speaks to the latter of “impmementing socialism”, or at least some policies, and Putin responds positively. So a comrade can dream I guess?
Yes, comrade Zyuganov brought up implementing Socialist economics to counter the economic sanctions at one of their party faction head meetings a little while back. Putin seemed to give some sort of positive acknowledgement but I see this as just realpolitik. The CPRF is the second largest party in the Russian Federation and the main opposition, now is a time where Putin needs as much unity within the country as he can get, so there’s no way he’s going to outright disagree or shoot down ideas from any of the factions at such a time, especially those that are already backing him on the current international situation. Putin isn’t dumb, I’m sure he’s well aware that after a certain point of isolation from the west, a neoliberal economy isn’t going to cut it anymore, so best case scenario he’s just saying he’s open for dialogue if the need arises later on.
I think what you are seeing there more reflects the fact that Putin has no real ideology whatsoever. He does change course when events make clear that the current way of running things is untenable; but otherwise, he tends to stick (whenever possible) with the current way of doing things. Such pragmatism alone makes him leagues better than any other major post-Soviet leader, Lukashenko excepted. But it still doesn’t qualify him as a comrade, unfortunately.
I know, let me dream. 😭
On that note, Russia’s new top general in Ukraine (Sergei Surovikin) actually fought on the side of the coup back in 1991.