"Who can imagine that a country would allow its own capital to be attacked and provide no response to such a situation?" France's far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon asked rhetorically, in what appeared to be a reference to Ukrainian drone strikes on Moscow.
How do you call yourself far left, when you are blaming the person who was invaded for fighting back?
Tankies
They support authoritarianism. That’s not leftist.
I mean, you can be auth-left. Reasonable to plot things in multiple dimensions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_spectrum
How would that even work in the real world though? There cannot be even a hint at equality under authoritarianism. Someone is always at the top, and maintaining that kind of power is going to require restrictions and oppression.
who told you leftism = no hierarchy?
Yet the USSR existed for a long time and PRC still does.
Which part of those countries is leftist? Calling each citizen a tovarish does not mean there was social equality or progressivism, depending on which definition of leftism you’d use.
If you want to claim no left wing states exist or have ever existed then fair enough, but generally things are compared to others. The USSR (especially the early years) was more egalitarian than the USA and so was more left wing, despite being authoritarian.
That’s a very strange way of looking at it. If there’s a far-right person and someone is comparably moderate, that doesn’t mean they’re “more left wing”. That could easily mean they’re just right-wing.
If someone is not stealing from their own country at the rate of Putin for example, that says little to nothing about the politics, human rights and equality in that country. The richest or specifically the ruling class in an African country may be worse off than those in the US or Russia, but that does not speak to the nature of either regime or make either more left-wing.
Tankies stink!
Horseshoes.
yeah, it is sickening and sad at the same time. I guess he would be on the side of Germany in WW2?
im “far left” and think NATO and associated nations (Australia, Canada, Mew Zealand) should put boots on the ground in Ukraine, along the Belarusian border to free up Ukrainian troops for the front and aircraft in the skies.
Fuck Russia and fuck this guy
You are not farleft. You are avg lockheed liberal.
A lot of communists around the world was against engaging in war with Germany… up until Germany invaded Russia.