Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-03-02 Thread sartesian via groups.io
On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM, Kristin Bayrd wrote: > > Done and done. Not really, as nothing has been done to reduce, much less minimize, much less prevent the capitalists abilities, needs, to restart the war.  Isn't that what the Marxist obligation is?  To reduce, minimize, prevent that re

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-03-02 Thread Kristin Bayrd via groups.io
On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 03:30 PM, workerpoet wrote: > > Maybe you should research it beyond Wikipedia. Start with the Azov > Battalions. > Yes! As you wrote in another post, there are no good guys in this war. It’s all well and good to debate everything that’s being debated in this thread, bu

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-03-02 Thread sartesian via groups.io
On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM, abraham Weizfeld PhD wrote: > > Ukraine is a terrorist State and so is the Zionist State as well. As opposed to "non-terrorist" states like Russia? Turkey? India? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply O

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-03-02 Thread abraham Weizfeld PhD via groups.io
--"autonomy for Russian speakers and a defeat of NATO possible without an equivalent revolution in Russia? Is too late for the implementation of an Autonomous oblast in the Ukrainian context since such Autonomy was denied by the transformation of Kyiv into a centralized Nation-State. It is

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread Marv Gandall via groups.io
On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 11:40 AM, David Walters wrote: > > The part of the class struggle, in fact a combined and prerequisite for it > is national liberation through the expulsion of foreign troops. While that > occurs the class struggle in all its forms continues, unabated. The reality, as opp

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread David Walters via groups.io
The part of the class struggle, in fact a combined and prerequisite for it is national liberation through the expulsion of foreign troops. While that occurs the class struggle in all its forms continues, unabated, at this point with the bosses government in Kiev winning. The unions are back on t

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread sartesian via groups.io
What I don't get is the entire lack of class conscious perspective on the part of both/either of the antagonists/proponents in this debate- like is anything DW hopes for--"Ukraine liberating the eastern half of the country" possible without a social revolution that deposes the current regime-- o

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread abraham Weizfeld PhD via groups.io
, even without the 55% of the Jewish People who were not taken into consideration in anything. Dr abraheim From: marxmail@groups.io On Behalf Of David Walters via groups.io Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 7:34 PM To: marxmail@groups.io Subject: Re: [marxmail] The Reality of

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-27 Thread David Walters via groups.io
Abraham, the Russian invaders control about half of most of these Oblasts and the Ukrainians control half or can't you read a map? The Ukrainians still control almost 80% of the population of Kherson, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia. The Russian Imperialists haven't really moved anywhere in 3 months a

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-26 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 26, 2025, at 12:30, workerpoet via groups.io > wrote: > > Maybe you should research it beyond Wikipedia. Start with the Azov > Battalions. Workerpoet, you apparently didn't read the Wikipedia article in my post, https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35492, which has a section on t

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-26 Thread workerpoet via groups.io
Maybe you should research it beyond Wikipedia. Start with the Azov Battalions. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35498): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35498 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111367768/21656 -=-=- P

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-26 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 26, 2025, at 09:43, workerpoet via groups.io > wrote: > > The Banderites that, with U.S. help, took over in Ukraine are fascists as > well. When did that happen workerpoet? From the reference that I got from chatGPT: "During Ukraine's post-Soviet history, the far-right has remained

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-26 Thread workerpoet via groups.io
The Banderites that, with U.S. help, took over in Ukraine are fascists as well. There are no good guys in this picture. Still even NATO's Jens Stoltneberg admitted the invasion would not have occurred without the NATO push. I hope the inter-fascist proxy war ends soon, though it looks like Trump

Re: [marxmail] the reality of Ukraine

2025-02-25 Thread duen filan via groups.io
hi Mike In your pamphlet "Putin's Poodles (my apologies to all dogs)" dated two weeks before Putin's (second) invasion of Ukraine, did your apologies include running dogs? Back then you wrote, "Socialists have to oppose both sides in this conflict.. their proxies in Ukraine" Do you still believe

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-25 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 24, 2025, at 23:24, modulus via groups.io > wrote: > > The article does contain the infamous phrase that Lenin planted a "time bomb" > in the form of the right of secession. Nonetheless, in its fashion, it also > recognises the right to self-determination. I quote a bit more contex

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-25 Thread RKOB via groups.io
For those interested, I have dealt with Putin’s essay titled “/On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians/” and the policy of the Bolsheviks and Stalinists in chapter 5 and 6 in my pamphlet “/Putin’s Poodles (Apologies to All Dogs)/”, https://www.thecommunists.net/theory/nato-russia-con

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread modulus via groups.io
On 25/02/2025 4:08, Mark Baugher wrote: I didn't know it was from Putin and need the context. Was Putin referring to the Russian annexation of the eastern Ukrainian provinces. I cannot tell. But Putin has been disputing Lenin for some time now. Right, I should have been clearer, sorry about

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread gojko rakic via groups.io
Why someone, calling himself marxist, defend and justify actions of a fascist, Putin and his mafia state, is beyond me. Obviously someone can call himself as he wants, but to be accepted as a marxist in a marxist group is also beyond me. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 24, 2025, at 18:07, modulus via groups.io > wrote: > > The relevant part is at the end, where Putin states that when a people > becomes conscious of its separateness that must be respected. That's > self-determination, no? I didn't know it was from Putin and need the context. Was

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread David Walters via groups.io
This not a serious response. Everyone of his comments on Ukraine not only disrespect Ukraine and its people, but seeks to *subordinate* Ukraine to Russia. The one above barely scratches the issue of Ukrainian self-determination. And...he f'ing invaded Ukraine. So much for Putin's "self-determin

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread modulus via groups.io
On 25/02/2025 2:59, Mark Baugher wrote: from their historical motherland. Are you referring to the Russian Empire as the motherland? Not me, I was quoting. The relevant part is at the end, where Putin states that when a people becomes conscious of its separateness that must be respected. Th

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread Mark Baugher
> On Feb 24, 2025, at 16:45, modulus via groups.io > wrote: > >> from their historical motherland. Are you referring to the Russian Empire as the motherland? Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35418): https://gr

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread modulus via groups.io
On 25/02/2025 1:34, David Walters via groups.io wrote: Putin has written many times and never once mentioned the right of self determination whatsoever. Manifestly false. For example: Of course, inside the USSR, borders between republics were never seen as state borders; they were nominal wi

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread David Walters via groups.io
Abraham wrote: > > > > As for the Ukrainian National Identity; that was recognized by Lenin ‘s > Right to national self-determination, was it not. Putin even referred to > this precedent to offset the accusation that the Russian Federation does > not recognize Ukraine. > > Ha! This is a joke

Re: [marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread abraham Weizfeld PhD via groups.io
This nationalist rant, soaked in delusions, reminds me of the Zionist propagandists. The first and evident contradiction here is first the claim that; ¨ In 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine anyway. ¨ Even while also stating that; ¨Ukrainians have fought for three years¨ which did not begin in 2014

[marxmail] The Reality of Ukraine

2025-02-24 Thread Charles Keener via groups.io
The Reality of Ukraine - by Timothy Snyder The divide in politics today is between unreality and reality. Those who seek to rule the world blur human experience and smudge memory, making cooperation and friendship laughable and unthinkable. Rather than possessors of truths, we are to serve as l