And if they added Laos and Ecuador we could have had CRUNKLE
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CommunistBear [he/him] - 2w
CUINK?
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culpritus [any] - 2w
tfw your plans for empire run into a CRINK
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Conselheiro - 2w
Honestly much better than BRICS. There's no geopolitical or ideological alignment for those countries other than being big and "developing" (a non-marxist term). These at least share the same strategic goal of survival from the US and military capabilities, while also being very different from each other internally.
I also prefer that to the Axis of Resistance, because Syria had become a ruined state long before the defeat this year.
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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ - 2w
It'll be interesting to watch where Russia heads after Putin. Russia's new best friends are all communist countries like China, Vietnam, and DPRK. As their economy pivots east, their politics are bound to follow. Meanwhile, liberal capitalism brand, linked to a struggling West, is losing its shine, while Marxism of their successful new partners is suddenly looking a lot cooler again. When in states that are your major allies people live well, and your enemies are capitalist states whose economies are faltering, the perceptual shift is inevitable in my opinion. I think a lot of people are starting to realize they took a big detour in the 90s, and that USSR could’ve developed the way China did if different decisions were made. There also isn't the same anti communist propaganda as we have in the west. Everybody has parents and grand parents who lived in Soviet times, and they know what life was really like. So, you can't scare people the same way.
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Malkhodr - 2w
I'm frankly very interested to see how Iran develops after Khamenei. Unlike Russia, the reformist faction of Iran still holds influence, and the principalists are unfortunately just as willing to buy into privatization. However, after the war with Izrael, a large portion of the Public is sick if any reproachment with the West, which is ne if the reformists main platform.
Frankly I fear for Iranians safety if the traitors and western bootlickers aren't ousted from power.
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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ - 2w
The west is really doing a great job making itself as unappealing a model as possible right now. We'll see if Iranians manage to clean house or not.
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Malkhodr - 2w
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Conselheiro - 2w
I honestly have no hope of any capitalist counter-hegemonic group turning socialist any time soon. By necessity stability is what keeps them together, and an internal conflict between the proletariat and bourgeoisie would risk a comprador realignment and US victory. The persecution of the (actual) communist party in Venezuela is a good example.
I think it's much more likely for new revolutions to pop up at the edges of the main conflict.
But I have never read any theory on socialist restoration.
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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ - 2w
We'll have to see what happens, but we're kind of in uncharted territory today as well. Capitalism has been the dominant system in the world, and previous peaceful attempts at socialism have always been crushed by the US empire. It's not that we don't have previous examples, such as Chile, but rather that they were never given a chance to develop before being snuffed out.
Russia has a couple of things going for it in this regard as well. CPRF is fairly popular having around 30% of the vote. It's a far more serious socialist party than anything seen in the west. Meanwhile, the level of state owned enterprise in Russia is comparable with China, a 2023 World Bank study also gives a pretty good overview of this. In particular, it distinguishes between businesses of the state (BOS), that are at least 10% government owned by some government, and state owned enterprises (SOE), which are majority owned or more, and controlled, by the government. So, it's entirely possible to imagine that Russia would be able to transition to a mixed socialist economy similar to China here. The capitalists would keep their property, but lose their remaining political power.
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rainpizza - 2w
The persecution of the (actual) communist party in Venezuela is a good example.
For some years now, militants from all over the world have frequently received communiqués signed “Communist Party of Venezuela” denouncing “the neoliberal regime of Maduro, which persecutes communists, represses workers, crushes wages and sows terror among the working classes as fascism does”. Out of automatic solidarity, often in good faith, they relay these messages without suspecting the true nature of their author, nor understanding the disinformation in which they participate. In reality, the real Communist Party of Venezuela not only actively supports the Bolivarian revolution and groups the vast majority of its militants but has just obtained a historic result in the legislative elections of May 2025.
Also, this "persecution" was actually against active fascist collaborators as previously posted here:
To make this idea clear, it is like if a Brazilian communist party supported a fascist candidate like Bolsonaro(in their case Maria Corina Machado) and actively rallied for guarimbas while joining hands with the fascists funded by the USA. COINTELPRO lives on in Latam and that one is a clear example of it judging by how many comrades fell into this "persecution" lie.
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Conselheiro - 2w
I meant the actual communists, which were ousted from their own party and lost all official and electoral control after a plot supported by PSUV. Everything you see from a "PCV" since 2023 is from a fake Trotskyite party leadership, which the PSUV helped create.
We repudiate the public and malicious intention of Mr. Diosdado Cabello, vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), to promote and execute the plan aimed at assaulting the PCV and usurping its symbols and legal-electoral figurehead, through the unacceptable maneuvering of using individuals who are not part of the PCV in order to present them as supposed "party rank and file". We strongly reject this vile maneuver, as well as the systematic attacks of this leader of the PSUV in which he repeatedly accuses the PCV of serving the interests of U.S. imperialism, with the clear objective of criminalizing the struggles of the communists in Venezuela.
I hope prolewiki and solidnet aren't also victims of COINTELPRO. Also COINTELPRO was focused only on US movements and didn't extend to LATAM. Critical support to the PSUV.
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rainpizza - 2w
I meant the actual communists, which were ousted from their own party and lost all official and electoral control after a plot supported by PSUV. Everything you see from a “PCV” since 2023 is from a fake Trotskyite party leadership, which the PSUV helped create.
You have it backwards, Conselheiro. They weren't ousted but lost popular support from their members due to their counter revolutionary tendencies from the leadership. The problem with most of your sources is that it cites the same people that has Enrique Márquez and the leader Oscar Figuera(trotskist). This is literally like Andrew Zenz bullshit from China but repackaged with marxist jargon. Comrades need to be careful with this. Otherwise, they will parrot counter revolutionary propaganda dressed in marxist words.
As evidence of the loss of popular support, that "couped" PCV that you are referencing was supporting an opposition candidate called Enrique Márquez(source -> https://www.instagram.com/p/C9GYJKApO1Z/) who got the following results:
This is just another evidence that this PCV lead by Oscar are fascist collaborators. Maria Corina Machado even celebrated them:
I hope prolewiki and solidnet aren’t also victims of COINTELPRO. Also COINTELPRO was focused only on US movements and didn’t extend to LATAM. Critical support to the PSUV.
I can't blame them though and the same tactic from COINTELPRO have been used in plenty of other places and not just the US. It is a fantasy to believe otherwise when we are suffering a lot due to the lack of solidarity due to plenty of purist tendencies within marxists circles that are quick to denounce their comrades. Also, Camarada Forte is part of prolewiki and even he denounced this reactionary PCV in this post -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5244648
PCV is basically voicing reaction, to the point they even use liberal wording about “democratic rights” in a bourgeois state
The actual communist and not the ones that you reference are actively out there organizing against the real enemy US imperialism:
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freagle - 2w
If we drop the K and add Ethiopia we get RINCE.
But we should drop the N not the K....
Burkina Faso?
KRIBF
Oh Brazil gives us KRIB
Thailand could give us TRIK
Oh we need Cuba
RICK
Russia, Iran, Cuba, Korea.
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big_spoon - 2w
BRICS gave us a pink tide
CRINK will up the hue and become a red tide?
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haui - 2w
Red tidal wave?
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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ - 2w
we can hope
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Grapho @lemmy.ml - 2w
Petition for China to be renamed "Beijing & Others" so we can get BOINK
yogthos in geopolitics
new acronym just dropped
https://www.csis.org/analysis/crink-10-chartsWay too close to a certain racist word for Chinese people and I'm sure it's intentional on their part.
If the USSR had not collapsed we could've had CRUNK
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/397348a3-d5bd-4b5b-94d6-2048118e5238.png
And if they added Laos and Ecuador we could have had CRUNKLE
CUINK?
tfw your plans for empire run into a CRINK
Honestly much better than BRICS. There's no geopolitical or ideological alignment for those countries other than being big and "developing" (a non-marxist term). These at least share the same strategic goal of survival from the US and military capabilities, while also being very different from each other internally.
I also prefer that to the Axis of Resistance, because Syria had become a ruined state long before the defeat this year.
It'll be interesting to watch where Russia heads after Putin. Russia's new best friends are all communist countries like China, Vietnam, and DPRK. As their economy pivots east, their politics are bound to follow. Meanwhile, liberal capitalism brand, linked to a struggling West, is losing its shine, while Marxism of their successful new partners is suddenly looking a lot cooler again. When in states that are your major allies people live well, and your enemies are capitalist states whose economies are faltering, the perceptual shift is inevitable in my opinion. I think a lot of people are starting to realize they took a big detour in the 90s, and that USSR could’ve developed the way China did if different decisions were made. There also isn't the same anti communist propaganda as we have in the west. Everybody has parents and grand parents who lived in Soviet times, and they know what life was really like. So, you can't scare people the same way.
I'm frankly very interested to see how Iran develops after Khamenei. Unlike Russia, the reformist faction of Iran still holds influence, and the principalists are unfortunately just as willing to buy into privatization. However, after the war with Izrael, a large portion of the Public is sick if any reproachment with the West, which is ne if the reformists main platform.
Frankly I fear for Iranians safety if the traitors and western bootlickers aren't ousted from power.
The west is really doing a great job making itself as unappealing a model as possible right now. We'll see if Iranians manage to clean house or not.
I honestly have no hope of any capitalist counter-hegemonic group turning socialist any time soon. By necessity stability is what keeps them together, and an internal conflict between the proletariat and bourgeoisie would risk a comprador realignment and US victory. The persecution of the (actual) communist party in Venezuela is a good example.
I think it's much more likely for new revolutions to pop up at the edges of the main conflict.
But I have never read any theory on socialist restoration.
We'll have to see what happens, but we're kind of in uncharted territory today as well. Capitalism has been the dominant system in the world, and previous peaceful attempts at socialism have always been crushed by the US empire. It's not that we don't have previous examples, such as Chile, but rather that they were never given a chance to develop before being snuffed out.
Russia has a couple of things going for it in this regard as well. CPRF is fairly popular having around 30% of the vote. It's a far more serious socialist party than anything seen in the west. Meanwhile, the level of state owned enterprise in Russia is comparable with China, a 2023 World Bank study also gives a pretty good overview of this. In particular, it distinguishes between businesses of the state (BOS), that are at least 10% government owned by some government, and state owned enterprises (SOE), which are majority owned or more, and controlled, by the government. So, it's entirely possible to imagine that Russia would be able to transition to a mixed socialist economy similar to China here. The capitalists would keep their property, but lose their remaining political power.
They aren't persecuted though. 4 months ago, the PCV(Partido Comunista de Venezuela) consolidated itself as the second largest political force at the national level and they are very active politically as mentioned in this article:
Also, this "persecution" was actually against active fascist collaborators as previously posted here:
To make this idea clear, it is like if a Brazilian communist party supported a fascist candidate like Bolsonaro(in their case Maria Corina Machado) and actively rallied for guarimbas while joining hands with the fascists funded by the USA. COINTELPRO lives on in Latam and that one is a clear example of it judging by how many comrades fell into this "persecution" lie.
I meant the actual communists, which were ousted from their own party and lost all official and electoral control after a plot supported by PSUV. Everything you see from a "PCV" since 2023 is from a fake Trotskyite party leadership, which the PSUV helped create.
https://marxismo.org.br/solidariedade-com-o-partido-comunista-da-venezuela/
https://www.marxist.ca/article/solidarity-with-the-venezuelan-communist-party
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Venezuela-Anti-communist-plan-continues-Government-PSUV-tries-to-co-opt-PCV-members-and-organisms-with-money-and-threats/
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela
https://elcooperante.com/tsj-intervino-al-pcv-y-nombro-una-junta-directiva-ad-hoc/
https://emdefesadocomunismo.com.br/governo-maduro-tenta-criar-um-falso-pcv-subordinado-a-sua-politica-neoliberal/
https://www.solidnet.org/article/CP-of-Venezuela-Joint-Statement-WE-CONDEMN-THE-PLAN-TO-ASSAULT-AND-INTERVENE-IN-THE-COMMUNIST-PARTY-OF-VENEZUELA/
I hope prolewiki and solidnet aren't also victims of COINTELPRO. Also COINTELPRO was focused only on US movements and didn't extend to LATAM. Critical support to the PSUV.
You have it backwards, Conselheiro. They weren't ousted but lost popular support from their members due to their counter revolutionary tendencies from the leadership. The problem with most of your sources is that it cites the same people that has Enrique Márquez and the leader Oscar Figuera(trotskist). This is literally like Andrew Zenz bullshit from China but repackaged with marxist jargon. Comrades need to be careful with this. Otherwise, they will parrot counter revolutionary propaganda dressed in marxist words.
As evidence of the loss of popular support, that "couped" PCV that you are referencing was supporting an opposition candidate called Enrique Márquez(source -> https://www.instagram.com/p/C9GYJKApO1Z/) who got the following results:
This is just another evidence that this PCV lead by Oscar are fascist collaborators. Maria Corina Machado even celebrated them:
I can't blame them though and the same tactic from COINTELPRO have been used in plenty of other places and not just the US. It is a fantasy to believe otherwise when we are suffering a lot due to the lack of solidarity due to plenty of purist tendencies within marxists circles that are quick to denounce their comrades. Also, Camarada Forte is part of prolewiki and even he denounced this reactionary PCV in this post -> https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5244648
The actual communist and not the ones that you reference are actively out there organizing against the real enemy US imperialism:
If we drop the K and add Ethiopia we get RINCE.
But we should drop the N not the K....
Burkina Faso?
KRIBF
Oh Brazil gives us KRIB
Thailand could give us TRIK
Oh we need Cuba
RICK
Russia, Iran, Cuba, Korea.
BRICS gave us a pink tide
CRINK will up the hue and become a red tide?
Red tidal wave?
we can hope
Petition for China to be renamed "Beijing & Others" so we can get BOINK
New vocal stim just dropped