No. I'm just tired of seeing myself misrepresented consistently.
The only misrepresentation of your position are the people who took any of your defense of Russia seriously. Just stop lying about your position and say "I side with whoever is against the US", and they won't misunderstand you.
Well, if everyone else has the same impression of you, that seems to be the impression you give via your posts.
Come off it already. Your position is transparent: Putin has given you a Marxism boner over the idea of a return of the USSR as a foil to the West and a socialist beacon to the exploited workers of the world. And if the road to your utopia has to be paved with the corpses of thousands of Ukrainians, well, then you can just call them all Nazis and hold Putin up as a hero.
/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/WZWIRKWEIJNXBKSSMULLQVCCHQ.jpg)
www.reuters.com
www.bbc.com
As an antifascist and as a communist I find it deeply offensive how Putin's Russia has the audacity to use antifascist rhetoric in its propaganda. The men who consider themselves the successors of the tsarist empire that was overthrown by the Bolsheviks invoke Europe's liberation from fascism by those very same Bolsheviks to continue the work of Hitler. It's deeply perverse.
I'm not a communist but I can really sympathize with you in this situation.
Original Antifa was directly aligned with Stalin. The definition of fascism they opposed included both capitalism and liberal democracy. You have adopted the rhetoric of genocidal authoritarians, not the other way around.
Antifa? The guys who started fighting against the Black Shirts even before Musollini got power? That was a combination of army officers, communists, republicans, anarchists and socialists. So... undemocratic. Antifa, that cared about defeating fascism... who are *check notes* against liberalism and democrary and turns capitalism into a slavery making machine. The same guys who WERE genocidal authoritarians. Gee, I wonder why they were against them
One could also point out that the US, British Commonwealth, France etc actually did directly align with Stalin to fight the fascists. Soviet troops were eating American spam and complaining about the rubbish equipment the UK sent them.
Don't try to tell a German about how Antifa is bad, actually. Including Social Democrats under their definition of fascists wasn't just a whim of Stalin, it was a result of the German Social Democrats collaborating with far right militias that led, among other things, to the assassination of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. Of course fascism grows out of capitalism and liberal democracy. Both Nazi Germany and the current Russian Federation grew from capitalism and liberal democracy. It was people like that drunk degenerate Yeltsin who rolled out the red carpet for fascists like Dugin and Putin to assume power in Russia, under the banner of liberal capitalism.
Antifascist rhetoric and antifascism are not the sole (or even main) purview of a specific group called Antifa.
It's dubious that the French really count on this score, as France was effectively extinguished as an independent state before the alliance of convenience with the USSR.
True, though they were at least willing to join in and play nice later on when the fascists weren't quite defeated and France was sorta a thing again.
I don't really think that counts either, as even after liberation France was effectively still a dependent nation needing huge quantities of foreign (i.e. US/UK) support to function, and so locked into the existing agreements of those countries.
Russia was already just a semi liberal democracy to begin with. And what made Putin so popular was his hard stance Chechnya and basically: Nationalism. And Yeltsin couldn't care less about liberal capitalism, he wanted someone that would ensure he wouldn't go down for corruption.
