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I wouldn't say revolutionary. There are likely revolutionaries in their ranks that long for a return to the USSR and unaliving Nazis is good, but I wouldn't call it revolutionary in the way we want it to be.
It's revolutionary in the sense that it inflicts a heavy defeat on the imperialists and severely depletes their arsenals. Already the conflict has greatly accelerated the global transition to multipolarity, encouraging Russia but also other countries in the global south that have seen how fickle of a partner the West can be, to reorient, develop alternative trading networks, and reduce their dependence on institutions and financial mechanisms controlled by the imperialist West.
It also destabilizes Europe, one of the two main centers of Western imperialism, politically and economically. This takes pressure off of revolutionary movements in the global south and opens the door to anti-NATO and anti-EU forces in Europe to take advantage of this defeat to agitate for breaking free of these institutions of hegemonic imperialist control which are directly responsible for the severe crisis many European countries now find themselves in.
none of this justifies support for Russia
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/jul/26.htm
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4114631
Russia can both oppose western imperialism and be imperialist itself is it too hard to comprehend?
Napoleon was both a monarch and subjugated other monarchies. Just because he overthrew european monarchies doesn't mean he was anti-monarchy
Anti-european monarchy sure but not anti-monarchy in general
Did you actually read anything of what was said in the thread i just linked? Have you read the resources that were provided there, such as: https://mronline.org/2019/01/02/is-russia-imperialist/ ? Seems like you didn't. You continue to argue based on a false premise.
Did you listen to the video in this post? Have you actually taken the time to understand what this conflict is about? Here are some more resources you can use to educate yourself: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9212334
Yes I did. You keep posting the same stuff proving western influence in Ukraine sure this is true yet you still fail to respond to my point that Russia is not representing any form of a proletarian struggle against bourgeois influence. Yes it struggles against western bourgeois influence BUT it does that by replacing it with IT'S OWN bourgeois influence! What does it have to do with anything anti imperialist (which means opposition to EVERY foreign bourgeoisie)?
Opposition to imperialism and colonialism is revolutionary and progressive even when it comes from bourgeois forces because it opens the door to proletarian revolutionary forces. Marxist-Leninist theory is very clear about this:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch06.htm
The primary contradiction in the world today is not between workers and peripheral capitalist states like Russia, it is between hegemonic Western imperialism and those resisting it. It is the struggle against neo-colonial subjugation, super-exploitation and underdevelopment.
The biggest global barrier to proletarian revolutions and national liberation worldwide is US and European imperialism.
Russia is allied with or providing aid to every existing socialist or anti-imperialist state. They are directly arming or otherwise supporting the countries that are most acutely struggling against imperialism and colonialism, from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, to Mali and Burkina Faso, to Iran and the DPRK.
Further, Russia does not fulfil the criteria of the Leninist definition of imperialism:
https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2022/03/02/is-russia-imperialist/
https://classconscious.org/2025/06/03/is-russia-an-imperialist-power-revisiting-lenin-in-the-21st-century/
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/why-russia-and-china-are-not-imperialist--a-marxist-leninist
https://www.ir-press.ru/2025/08/24/russia-not-an-imperialist-country/
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