Comrade Pandemic's Peccadilloes

Ok, you appear to be suggesting that Putin is communist? He's not at all.

He says he is not. But, his invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea is right out of the Red Menace's Playbook. He appears to be the "New and Improved," version of Marxist-Leninism. Of course he supported free elections to choose his successor,, right? That's right. He got himself installed for life. I wonder how he is going to act against the protests against him on the Eastern border? Putin is Stalin in a business suit, without a moustache. If you took the time to read history, you would know that Putin ran for president originally, pledging to return the Republic to its Communist era glory. He is doing so, and then some. He has helped hobble the US and has its leader on a leash. Congratulations Comrade.

Jesus. There's so much to unpack here and it just annoys me that you're so eager to dump your misconceptions out and move on without a proper discussion.

People have been annexing territory using thinly veiled elections as pretext since long before Karl Marx was born. You could just as easily argue that Julius Caesar wrote the playbook. You could argue that the Spartan annexation of Thebes invented it. There's nothing specifically Marxist or Stalinist about it - and you're actually encouraging people to drop the defining features of these things from our collective knowledge. Just don't do it!

And Putin has ran many times - and still runs - on the nostalgist platform, saying that he wants to restore the authoritarian control over Russia that the Soviets had, but he has not and cannot run on a communist platform. The day he does, his career is over. So, it's ridiculous - he has Communists rotting in jail, and it makes no sense whatsoever that he secretly supports them.

Your historical allusion to Caesar is right out of the "Communist Manifesto." "In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations."

Stalin had "communists," rotting in jails also. And, one does not need a "party," to be a Communist. In fact, the "Communist Manifesto," does away with that idea early in Chapter 2.

"In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?

The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties.

They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole."

It is time to be annoyed. Any discussion with you will be without merit. You are woefully ill-informed on the subject and too eager to make a partisan defense than to confront the probability that your leader is being used by one of the master spies of our era.

Don't you just hate it when people who are clearly beneath you have the temerity to offer an opinion?

Opinons are not interchhangeable with facts. Trolls like you are free to make up any "opinions," you wish. And, when you do, I stop wasting my time with you.

That's why you keep replying right?

Because you are a master of "facts" and everyone else is only offering an "opinion". Got news for your skippy, you presenting your opinions too. You just add an air of arrogance because you're not good at presenting an argument.

I hope that your week is ful of Peace and Love.

What constitutional rights aren't minorities getting, Libtard Larry?