I don’t know if any of you remember this, but about a month ago I made a post that basically said: Russia is capitalist so we shouldn’t support it. I also made a couple other claims that were not entirely fact nor theory supported, nor did I even necessarily believe them. Anyway, I just wanted to state that I have developed a more nuanced view thanks to lemmygrad, and I wanted to say thanks to this community in particular for opening my eyes.
People who have been expressing these sentiments on reddit, don’t have a basic grasp of anti imperialism nor are thinking dialectically. Read anarchism or Socialism by stalin, there’s a part where he explains dialmat very well and uses the example of the republic being good and bad in different contexts and extrapolate that passage to what’s going on with Russia. Also read on contradiction by mao.