Friday, February 16, 2024

BREAKING: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny dies in prison

In perspective how far do anti-corruption candidates get in " OUR democracy " ? Did Russian lawyer Alexei Navalny want to reform Putin's CAPITALISM in Russia ? Make it easier for the " New Rich " in Russia to consolidate their collective power after the collapse of " communism " in the old Soviet Union ? For all its flaws did not Russian communist " propaganda " for seven long decades honestly describe the social evils of capitalism , the misery of the Western working class during the Great Depression ? If PRIVATE PROPERTY was forbidden under the Soviet Union how did the New Rich in Russia emerge so quickly ? No collusion with American imperialism, with global capitalism " think tanks " , with the CIA ? Way back in 1927 Leon Trotsky was explaining how the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was betrayed by a " New Aristocracy " who got wealthy by controlling the STATE . He was assassinated by tyrant Stalin in 1940 while in exile in Mexico. Did Alexei Navalny have a fatuous vision of HIS post-communist Russian government as being more like our messed up TWO PARTY SYSTEM both controlled by the AMERICAN plutocracy ? How much nicer for Russia to be led by the likes of our Joe Biden and Donald Trump , by the like of Bill and Hillary Clinton ? By guys like OUR millionaires and billionaires ? The sad truth is that the young generation in Russia that came to prominence AFTER the collapse of the old Soviet Union is politically ignorant. Today they probably get more inspiration from the right wing crank Ayn Rand than from Adam Smith or the New York Times editorial board.[ NOTE Ayn Rand was both a militant atheist and a ferocious ZIONIST ) . In what way was still young Alexei Navalny a real hero ? I need to know more about him.

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