I’ll preface with saying that I’m only a random Communist. Please take what I say with a grain of salt, even if I come off as confident.

Regardless of your opinion on the war, it is not going to affect its course unless you go fight there, with a few exceptions.

Unless you live in Russia or Ukraine, your priorities should be:

  • pressuring your country’s government for non-interventionism, including sanctions. Capitalist States have only the interest of capital in mind, and their intervention will hurt the people further
  • fighting racism in your communities, especially the new wave of anti-Russian hate.

If you live in Poland or Romania, you should also be fighting the racism against non-Ukrainians (mostly foreign students) seeking refuge. Most of them just want to go home. The fact that the police are attacking them is extremely ridiculous.

  • ezmack
    3·
    3 years ago

    The problem I see is a lot of people (not necessarily communists) see arming Ukraine as the neutral or peace position; and opposition to that as picking putins side

    • southerntofu
      22·
      3 years ago

      I am among these people.

      Yes, i believe helping “the little guy” against a big bully is always the neutral position. Although economic sanctions i personally don’t see as neutral but rather as a form of another bully (western bloc) reverse-bullying the “original” (in this specific story) bully while using the little guy as an excuse.

      Remember Spain 1936? The “neutral” position of west-european socdems of non-assistance ended up strengthening fascism across Europe, while USSR’s “neutral” position of arming only the regular army (in exchange for political control/repression over revolutionary Spain) ended up destroying the revolution (dismantling of people’s militias, banning of women from the battlefield, slaughtering the anarchists eg. in the battle of Telefonica).

      There’s no good answer in war. But when i look at what’s happening in Rojava, and despite all my hatred for western powers, i’m glad the autonomous administration is still alive thanks to outside support. Without foreign intervention, the revolution in Rojava would have been crushed either by Daech or by the Turkish fascists.

    • faustbr
      57·
      3 years ago

      True, comrade. I simply fail to understand how someone could believe in arming for peace. It is as logical as fucking for virginity.