What can we learn from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict?
These days, among us comrades, we hear all sorts of things. Some, driven by superficial humanitarian motivations, send aid or fully support Ukraine’s aggressive, nationalist, and pro-NATO cause without even realizing it. Others, whether confused Stalinists, red-brown individuals, or conspiracy theorists, genuinely believe that Russian interests, being anti-imperialist against the Yankees, promote social progress and even antifascism (hahaha). It all boils down to a Manichean view where the rightful criticism of Gramscian indifference turns instead into a sports-style cheering, where you root for one side or the other just like when as children your teacher asked if you preferred Athens or Sparta (I’ve always rooted for the latter). The great absent from every discussion on this matter is the class consciousness of the comrade you’re speaking with and, in reality, ours as well.
Inevitably, in discussing the conflict, historical and geopolitical reasons are laid on the table, where an attentive comrade on these topics might find that one less country in the Yankee imperialist orbit is still a point gained. Nonetheless, the real politics are left outside the door. A true comrade faced with events like this should always remember Lenin’s lesson, who while advocating for proletarian neutrality in the conflict among nations during World War I, killed two birds with one stone by leading the proletarian revolution in his own country, still largely feudal at the time.
So the lesson remains the same and spans over a century: THINK OF OURSELVES! And this does not mean reaching a Buddhist-like individual and social awareness, but rather thinking of our own interests as the interests of the social class we belong to. While we waste our time believing we are the statesmen who can debate geopolitics (as if we were the ones deciding anything), it would be better to tune our antennas and analyze the present situation and the consequences these events can have in our lives. The certain facts for us are few: an executive (Draghi and Co.) that is now always imposed from above, desperately seeking a solidity that is acceptable for the European and international economic system, reinforcing the authority of our local capitalists and lobbies, who while they weep poverty on TV and claim to be spokespersons for who knows what reforms through their political puppets, are actually rubbing their hands at the absence of real social conflict (no vax and no green pass are merely the other side of conformity) that the previous years have imposed and will continue to impose thanks to various states of emergency, now as necessary as requests for trust.
While they further impoverish us by exploiting us doubly, we should realize that the first real enemy is the salary that keeps us from ending up under the bridges (for now). THINK ONLY OF
These days, among us comrades, we hear all sorts of things. Some, driven by superficial humanitarian motivations, send aid or fully support Ukraine’s aggressive, nationalist, and pro-NATO cause without even realizing it. Others, whether confused Stalinists, red-brown individuals, or conspiracy theorists, genuinely believe that Russian interests, being anti-imperialist against the Yankees, promote social progress and even antifascism (hahaha). It all boils down to a Manichean view where the rightful criticism of Gramscian indifference turns instead into a sports-style cheering, where you root for one side or the other just like when as children your teacher asked if you preferred Athens or Sparta (I’ve always rooted for the latter). The great absent from every discussion on this matter is the class consciousness of the comrade you’re speaking with and, in reality, ours as well.
Inevitably, in discussing the conflict, historical and geopolitical reasons are laid on the table, where an attentive comrade on these topics might find that one less country in the Yankee imperialist orbit is still a point gained. Nonetheless, the real politics are left outside the door. A true comrade faced with events like this should always remember Lenin’s lesson, who while advocating for proletarian neutrality in the conflict among nations during World War I, killed two birds with one stone by leading the proletarian revolution in his own country, still largely feudal at the time.
So the lesson remains the same and spans over a century: THINK OF OURSELVES! And this does not mean reaching a Buddhist-like individual and social awareness, but rather thinking of our own interests as the interests of the social class we belong to. While we waste our time believing we are the statesmen who can debate geopolitics (as if we were the ones deciding anything), it would be better to tune our antennas and analyze the present situation and the consequences these events can have in our lives. The certain facts for us are few: an executive (Draghi and Co.) that is now always imposed from above, desperately seeking a solidity that is acceptable for the European and international economic system, reinforcing the authority of our local capitalists and lobbies, who while they weep poverty on TV and claim to be spokespersons for who knows what reforms through their political puppets, are actually rubbing their hands at the absence of real social conflict (no vax and no green pass are merely the other side of conformity) that the previous years have imposed and will continue to impose thanks to various states of emergency, now as necessary as requests for trust.
While they further impoverish us by exploiting us doubly, we should realize that the first real enemy is the salary that keeps us from ending up under the bridges (for now). THINK ONLY OF
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