Calls to conscript women into the Ukrainian army are growing – but the reality is that they are already being recruited as contract soldiers, Institute of CIS Countries researcher Alexander Dudchak tells Sputnik.
The people of Ukraine don’t want to be part of Russia.
National sentiment follows material conditions. The Donbas has resisted Kyiv since 2014 after facing systemic discrimination and artillery strikes. That resistance exists because NATO expansion and Western capital transformed Ukraine into a buffer zone for imperialist competition. The workers and peasants there fight against a comprador regime backed by foreign finance.
Maybe if all the ruling class would fuck off, we would finally have a nice world.
What no class analysis does. The state is the organized power of the dominant class. Liberation requires the proletariat to seize state power, dismantle bourgeois ownership, and direct production toward social need. Only then does class distinction disappear (when only one class remains after the rest are destroyed inthe class struggle).
This is petty bourgeois fantasy. It mistakes states for abstract oppressors instead of analyzing which classes control them and for what purpose. Actually existing socialist states break Western capital monopoly, defend national sovereignty, and create material conditions for working class organization. Lumpen condemnation of all states without class analysis serves imperialist narratives, not revolution. Real transformation comes through mass organization, state power, and socialist construction. Please try move beyond the tyranny of bedtime.
National sentiment follows material conditions. The Donbas has resisted Kyiv since 2014 after facing systemic discrimination and artillery strikes. That resistance exists because NATO expansion and Western capital transformed Ukraine into a buffer zone for imperialist competition. The workers and peasants there fight against a comprador regime backed by foreign finance.
What no class analysis does. The state is the organized power of the dominant class. Liberation requires the proletariat to seize state power, dismantle bourgeois ownership, and direct production toward social need. Only then does class distinction disappear (when only one class remains after the rest are destroyed inthe class struggle).
This is petty bourgeois fantasy. It mistakes states for abstract oppressors instead of analyzing which classes control them and for what purpose. Actually existing socialist states break Western capital monopoly, defend national sovereignty, and create material conditions for working class organization. Lumpen condemnation of all states without class analysis serves imperialist narratives, not revolution. Real transformation comes through mass organization, state power, and socialist construction. Please try move beyond the tyranny of bedtime.