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You mean I’m not the only who received a bottle of vodka that came with a card written personally by Putin thanking me for what a good job I have done for posting Russian propaganda on the internet? He said I was the employee of the month!

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isnt china already doing this?

China has canceled and restructured some debt, but not paying back Africa’s debt with their dollar reserves yet. From 2000-2019, China has canceled $3.4 billion of Africa’s debt. China has also waived 23 interest-free loans in 19 African countries in 2022. For reference, Russia canceled $23 billion of Africa’s debt in 2022 alone.

Ultimately, Africa’s debt problem does not stem from China, who only provides a small portion of its total debt (most of which are owed to Western countries), though China lending Africa in dollar is a problem because it further entrenches the need of these countries to earn dollars to pay back their creditors. China has restructured some debt through IMF’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR), but that’s going through the IMF.

The total amount of Africa’s foreign debt is about $800 billion. China’s foreign reserve is also about $800 billion. China can do a lot to save and relieve those countries if it really wants to.

is there some truth to his or is it another fabrication from western media?

The impression came from the countries who dealt with China themselves. It depends on the Chinese banks who made the loans. There is a lot of exaggeration from Western propaganda, like China is setting a debt trap in Africa, which is false. If anything, China lending those countries with its dollars actually help entrench Western debt trap, not China’s!

What we want to see is instead of lending out its foreign reserves as loans to Africa, China should use those reserves to pay back Africa’s dollar debt, then lend out its infrastructure loans in yuan (or BRICS currency or whatever, as long as it’s not dollars) to fund clean energy and development projects.

The problem for China is that they don’t know what to do with all the dollars they have accumulated from exporting their goods to the US, since they are practically junk papers, so instead of buying US treasury bonds, they lend them out to developing countries via Belt and Road to help develop those countries. But it also entrenches those countries to further debt bondage, not to China, but to the US since these countries now have to earn dollars to repay these loans. Restructuring those loans into yuan and then canceling the debt altogether is the only way to go.

What you need is called praxis - practice guided by theory.

The scientific nature of Marxism necessarily implies that its theory will be carried out and tested in the real world. However, without a theoretical foundation, practice is as good as shooting in the dark. It’s like wanting to build a plane but never bothering to pick up a physics textbook to study the foundational principles in the first place. Yes, you can try to re-invent the wheel that took several centuries of collective effort, but it’s going to take a very long time before you even get close to a starting point.

It is no coincidence that all socialist governments that have succeeded in their revolutions and survived the ensuing counter-revolutions are all Marxist-Leninist.

Another factor that people often neglect is that Russia has been canceling debt across the Global South owed to both the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. From 1991 to 2018, Russia has canceled over $140 billion debt in the Global South countries. Just last year, Russia canceled another $23 billion debt in Africa.

Russia is a very weak economy but even Putin understands that these African countries cannot possibly repay their debt. Russia could have used the debt to push for privatization in Africa and take over their assets to further exploitation as a colonial power, like what Western imperialists are doing through IMF.

Russia doesn’t do that. It is fundamentally not the same as a Western imperialist power no matter how much people try to equate Russia to the US empire.

Look at how the French furthered its colonialist ambitions in Africa through CFA franc and treat those countries and you’d instantly understand why people from Burkina Faso like Russia so much.

On the other hand, and unfortunately, China still has some issues with their image across the Global South (and I say this as a Chinese myself). Many countries are still quite suspicious of China’s intentions and there is an impression that China is only interested in doing business where profit matters.

The Chinese geopolitical strategy since Mao’s time has been to maximize benefit to its internal development even at the expense of other countries of the developing world, which is fundamentally different from the Soviet Union where foreign aid was dished out to arm anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles. As a result, even Russia as a capitalist country today continues to benefit from the good will the Soviet Union had sown over the years.

This is why I always say that if China is serious about leading the anti-imperialist movement against the global hegemon, it can start by using its vast amount of foreign reserves to pay back the Global South debt. This will improve China’s image in the eyes of many Global South countries.

Theory is science. It has to keep up with the evolving nature of capitalism.

While fascism was invented to defeat communism in response to the Bolshevik Revolution, the fact is that left wing theory until this day still has no definite answer to fascism - the most vicious form of capitalism.

Lenin saw the rise of fascism late in his life but did not live long enough to observe the true destructive force of fascism. Stalin spent the rest of his life rebuilding a country where tens of millions were sacrificed in the fight against fascism. Same with Mao having to deal with the Japanese and the KMT fascists, where millions and millions were killed in the process.

The post-war European left turned their backs on the Soviet Union and chose class collaborationism with capital in the form of social democracy, which directly caused the rise of far right nationalism in the present day, to which they have no answer for.

The post-war US perfected the brutality of fascism in the form of Jakarta Method, which was then enacted across the Third World where tens of millions were murdered and tortured in the name of anti-communism. The destructive nature of fascism lingers to this very day in many places across the Global South.

More than one hundred years since fascists first took power in Italy, the left still has no answer for it. How to defeat it without getting millions of people killed in the process. That should tell you the state of left wing theoretical development we are in today, and how much work needs to be done while time is about to run out.

Putin is not the left.

It’s the standard Western leftist take that we have seen regurgitated so many times over the years.

It is no different that asking: why is Iran so conservative? why is Afghanistan so conservative? why are so many countries in the Global South so conservative? Why don’t they elect a left wing government that we can support?

Hint: read up the history of left wing movements from those countries, what happened to them and especially the role of US/Western imperialists behind it.

Again, it is sad we continue to see this kind of ahistorical and non-materialist takes from the Western left. It provides no explanatory power to the material conditions of our current world, nor does it have any prescriptive power to guide left wing movements toward defeating capitalism.

It ends up with a “good guy” vs “bad guy” delineation with a bit more nuance but really not so much different from your standard liberal take.

Argentina is one of the best real world examples on why voting for left always end up on the right. Again, with this kind of discourse you cannot explain how someone like Milei could get elected and so you end up blaming the Argentinian people for being stupid for electing a right wing libertarian to destroy their own country.

There is very little room for left wing movements in the Global South to survive until Western imperialism has been completely and thoroughly defeated.

I love that there is such a stark contrast between the Western left and the Global South left when it comes to Russia.

It is telling how well the propaganda works when people are equating Russia with the US.

This is my impression of the current state of US right wing politics.

Had to travel to US for work a couple years back and accidentally tuned into a right wing radio show while driving. It was too good to stop listening.

There was some local election going on. The hosts and some guest commentator were openly calling for people to vote for an Asian immigrant candidate running on a conservative/“anti-woke” platform against a woke leftist (read: white liberal Democrat).

“This man is a true American patriot I can get behind! He’s more American than the woke leftists who hate our country!”

Then the conversation pivoted to some news that Biden was ramping up tension against China. They all laughed it off: “Starting a war with China? Are they serious? We’re gonna get our asses beaten by the Chinese easily! Do you think our woke military can defeat China? Obama’s been allowing transgender ideology to be taught in the army for years! Our military is no longer the fighting force it used to be! It’s all about wokeness and transgenderism these days!”

The American right is obsessed with “wokeness” these days. It’s so bizarre and entertaining at the same time.

No lol. AOC went all in with endorsing Biden before the Gaza war happened, I don’t think they have a way out. This is a test of loyalty - it’s do or die together.

If Biden survives the coup, even if he loses the election, it will be his perfect excuse to blame the dissenters for sowing doubt into the electorate’s minds. It would then be followed by a purge and the loyalists would be rewarded.

If Biden gets couped (the most likely culprit is Kamala), the Democrats will lose, and everyone goes down together.

Because AIPAC lobbying (money laundering) works on both Democrats and Republicans. War in Israel/Palestine is good for both sides of the ruling class.

Ukraine is different. It is strongly tied to the Democratic Party and the Biden family (note Hunter Biden’s involvement) which essentially allows the Biden Democrats to unlock a “cheat code” that blatantly pumps $175 billion (so far) for Ukraine in just 2 years, as long as the majority of the people are sympathetic to the Ukrainian cause, and which are ultimately laundered back to the pockets of Democratic politicians and their proxies, as well as the military industrial complexes, oil and gas industries and financial companies that have pledged their loyalty to the Bidens, as a treat.

This is why Trump and the Republicans want to end the war in Ukraine, and why they are so keen on crucifying Hunter Biden. The Republicans are getting beat at the avenues that give away treats to the bourgeoisie. It is simply more profitable to align with the Democrats and gain access to the Ukraine gravy train.

This is also why the Biden campaign has been propping up Hunter lately - him persuading Joe Biden to keep running, attending White House meetings with Joe, etc. - to signal that even if Joe’s mental ability has far degraded, Hunter’s still there to make sure that the promises of treats to the Biden Patreon supporters will be fulfilled.