Lisitsyn

many of these states and their governments are openly hostile to communist elements, but a communist party actively opposing their government would risk destabilising it and then playing themselves directly into the hands of the imperialist states. an indefinite "united front" would be desirable, especially in countries like iran, but it seems all leftist organisations in these states have either decided to fully support the government in everything, becoming controlled opposition (KPRF in Russia) or western puppets like (MEK) or whatever the fuck the "leftist opposition" in russia, belarus is.

i think the main con of soviet foreign policy was that, of no fault of their own, they assumed the union would never collapse. they had, in a way, made a lot of countries dependent on their aid. you can see the consequence of this is seen in the the complete collapse of the socialist bloc worldwide after '89-91. only 5 survived.

the main con of china's foreign policy is definently their stalwart non-interventionist stance, they never poke their nose into others business. this can, in some cases, be good. china will not (at least directly) aid another pol pot or a derg

The power of the Jews even today, especially in America, should not be underestimated. And therefore I have very deliberately and very consciously – and that was always my opinion – put all my strengh, the best I could, to bring about a reconciliation between the Jewish people and the German people.

— Dec. 29 1965, Konrad Adenauer.

Not gonna "dox" myself by giving out where i'm from, you can probably surmise it from my post history if you really want to know. My country doesn't have that large of a pro-Palestine movement, not to say there isn't one, there is. Just not on the same scale as neighbouring states. Our largest military trading partner in terms of imports is Israel. the total value of the arms and munitions we purchase from them is around 30-50 million a year and ever increasing as we further militarize to fight against the evil Russians. I know legalism will never work and it will be impossible to halt the import of weaponry through those means but it is good grounds for protest as the ones we see against Elbit abroad. It would be a good way to galvanize opposition to the genocide and Israel in general here as we are dominated by the same kinds of liberals and conservatives which love to couch their rhetoric with legalistic justifications. You hear constant whinging (rarely justified) about breaches of international law in countries that to do not align with the western interest. We are dominated by this kind of liberal monoculture and thus it would be easier to broach the subject with the same kind of framework than without it. The problem is i'm not well versed in international law and would not know how to properly formulate that type of argument, it's like a whole different language to me. I don't know where to even start.

multi-party bourgeois democracy has proven to be too much of a hassle in both instances. there is heavy foreign interference, primarily through fostering the opposition and by direct coup attempts. if you attempt to work within the capitalist system as a socialist you'll associate every misfortune caused by the economic structure of society with socialism. eventually as us sanctions continue to strangle your economy and destroy your nation you'll be voted out and it'll all have been for nothing. i genuinely do not see how allowing the current state of things continue is in anyway beneficial to their programme. seizing power would prevent any overturning of the present reforms and allow for the cementing of revolutionary control. the west will never consider you legitimate as long as you are in opposition to their interests, they'll consider you a dictator no matter what you do.

heard of redact, kanary, easyoptouts, but they all have important services locked behind a paywall

i don't want to detach myself from the current situation dreaming about the possible horrors of the future while sitting in the midst of a genocide, but i feel this is one of those things you kinda have to think about especially considering the scale of its consequences. this isn't a 'nothing matters we're gonna die in a nuclear war anyway!' kindveof here, this actually is something that we know will happen and are already seeing """""gradually""""" take form. my worries here are primarily the response to the migration. we are already seeing far-right governments take hold all over europe and the west in general and as material conditions worsen the need to further act on their racist class-obscuring rhetoric will increase as they push people into a genocidal frenzy, blaming their woes on the hundreds of millions if not billions of refugees. gaza will be as herero and nama genocide was to the holocaust. the chicken must come home to roost and we will see the methods pioneered by our imperialism brought home. no longer will you be watching a holocaust on your phone, because it will be happening right in front of you, or more accurately, to you.

don't think we should be wasting a lot of time pondering this considering the issues at hand but we have to at least prepare for something along these lines as i do not see a future different from the one i depicted being possible without a radical reconstitution of the west. which isn't an impossibility like some doomers seem to think but not within 10-20 years when it really becomes a problem. maybe our only hope is Hezbollah al-Biritaniu like in children of men

nothing more to add

books on the collapse, the aftermath

https://xcancel.com/GermanyDiplo/status/1933478572099793066

is there a definitive definition of "revolution" you follow and how do you differentiate it from the standard coup? when does a coup become a revolution?