I know that he’s anti-imperialist and that people say critical support. But my question is what does he do? Not saying anything good or bad about him, I’m just saying from the libs I hear he’s bad and a dictator and he’s evil, people who are decently far left say “he’s far from perfect but worthy of critical support” and I can’t criticize or praise his actions as I know nothing of his policies or history and lord knows looking it up doesn’t help these days

    • MexicanCCPBot@lemmygrad.ml
      20·
      2 years ago

      I do wonder why Belarus is never mentioned as AES. I would say it may qualify.

      I think we should differentiate between anti-imperialist, anti-neoliberal, state capitalist, and actually socialist. Some overlap but not always, and there’s nuances (state capitalist in the socialist sense and state capitalist in the Keynesian sense, for example).

        • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
          16·
          2 years ago

          State capitalist is kind of a meaningless term, what matters is which class holds control over the political and economic system.

          So some of the nordic states might have a comparatively high degree of state ownership and employment (compared to other capitalist states

          ), while still having a capital stand above the politics and economy.

          Whereas in China, Cuba, Vietnam, the communist party stands above the economy and directs it via X-year plans.

          Lenin’s quote on the distinction is good, and probably the main reason we should ditch the term altogether.

          The state capitalism, which is one of the principal aspects of the New Economic Policy, is, under Soviet power, a form of capitalism that is deliberately permitted and restricted by the working class. Our state capitalism differs essentially from the state capitalism in countries that have bourgeois governments in that the state with us is represented not by the bourgeoisie, but by the proletariat, who has succeeded in winning the full confidence of the peasantry.

  • Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml
    23·
    2 years ago

    Miles better than Putin and hated by libs because they don’t like their precious nazi oppositions being defeated and expelled from country and unsuccessful coups.

  • frippa
    16·
    2 years ago

    I think he is close to being a socialist, just like Gheddafi

    • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
      14·
      2 years ago

      Guy def wants to resurrect the Byelorussian SSR. Even if the country is no longer socialist, it should absolutely be supported a one of the few anti-imperialist bastions left in Europe that’s been to resist the EU and its neoliberalization impoverishment strategies.

      • frippa
        11·
        2 years ago

        Oh yes, I think he is the best leader in Europe as of now, if only Belarus didn’t suffer this much from the fall of the USSR

        • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
          9·
          2 years ago

          Ya he rules… Its exciting times ahead now that the EU is having so many problems and NATO is finally being stopped its tracks. If there’s a list of countries that are most likely to turn communist, Russia and Belarus are near the top.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.mlOP
      7·
      2 years ago

      It’s funny you mentioned him, I recently started reading Muammar al-Qaddafi’s Green Book. I’m only on the first or 2nd chapter bc I downloaded it and I usually read physical books first

      • frippa
        8·
        2 years ago

        He was as based as non socialist leaders get ☝️

  • SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    2 years ago

    https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428 This seems really interesting. Note: I haven’t read it yet, nor have I read too into its source. This paper comes from an ostensibly Marxist group is all I know, and the title seems relevant. I’m gonna read it now.

    edit: group is cool as hell: article explains Belarus’s economy and foreign relations very well. I think an argument is pretty convincingly made that Belarus is pursuing socialism of a certain type, “market socialism”, but not precisely Marxist or communist.

  • NXL
    215·
    2 years ago

    An anti-imperialist supporting imperialism towards Ukraine. Do y’all simp over anyone as long as the libs don’t like them?

    • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      2 years ago

      Imperialism is not when a country invades another. Imperialism is the theft of land, labor, and natural resources of a weak country to feed a stronger one.

      Russia defending its borders from continued NATO encroachment over the past 30 years is not imperialism, and Russia is not part of the imperial core of countries currently robbing the global south of its surplus value by paying it wages from 200 years ago.

      • NXL
        217·
        2 years ago

        lol why did you bring up the global south and NATO. The US is imperialist as fuck and run by billionaire pigs like just like Russia. I don’t simp for the US. The enemy of my enemy isn’t my friend.

        also Russia is stealing the land, labor, and natural resources of the middle east just like the U.S. and now they’re trying to do it to Ukraine.