For my part, if they are truly socialist not just by name but have plans for a socialist governing on top of seeking for self-determination after being locked in Ukraine, they have my support BUT i fear that they might be just socialist by name and just end up becoming part of the russian federation which in that case would obviously strip any leftist of the will to support their movement. But i have to admit that i haven’t done much research on this topic.
They never claimed to be socialist but they are nonetheless worth supporting in their aspiration to self-determination (now as part of the Russian nation) and their defense against genocidal Ukrainian Nazism.
There isn’t really more than that to it. They are now fully integrated into the Russian Federation and so their governments function as those of any other Russian federal state, which is to say they are bourgeois governments full of contradictions that sometimes do good things (in particular they offer a lot of public aid and very solid social safety nets) and sometimes not so good.
One thing that can be praised about them is their sense of solidarity that their people have developed over the eight years militarily resisting the Kiev regime virtually on their own until Russia officially came to their aid. Because of this history there is a very strong sense of community and a lot of mutual aid happening not only from citizens of these frontline republics but from other parts of Russia as well. That kind of social consciousness is a positive thing to see and can be the basis for future revolutionary impetus. If Russia does have another socialist revolution it will be driven primarily by these people who have lived through difficult times and experienced the value of solidarity and people helping each other.
They’re not even socialist by name, they’re basically just looking to model Russia’s existing post-soviet capitalist government with some orthodox christian nationalism thrown in. We don’t stan LPR or DPR. A founder and the first head of state of the DPR was Pavel Gubarev, an RNU member. The second head of state of the LPR, Igor Plotnitsky, was a post-Soviet class traitor plutocrat oil profiteer. These are not socialist projects, not materially, not in ideals, not in name.
These disputed states are enemies of the Great Satan and absolutely nothing more, besides their anti-NATO positonality they have no redeeming qualities.
god i hate it when the right claim revolutionary aesthetics to catch people into their shit…but then again its nothing new: the nazis and black-shirts have all appropriated leftist “aesthetics” and slogans to increase their follower base and give them the illusion of progressive change
Who is doing that here?
the luhansk and donetsk PRs?
I think we have a comrade from the area? I can’t say anything about it myself though. Fog of war makes it impossible to find reliable information, at least for someone like me who doesn’t already know what to look for
IMO they probably only chose the “People’s Republics” names to propagate the idea that they are founded by a revolution of actual people against the Ukranian government, and because of Soviet nostalgia. Also, Russia already enacted the law to annex both republics.
