I’ve tried to search for opinions on what’s going on in Ukraine, but most posts are incredibly old. I’m not too educated on the matter myself (well, aside from keeping up most of the time with what cities are under whose control and all of that). I haven’t really heard much about the geopolitical side of things, and it’s hard to know what’s disinfo or not; That’s why I’d like to ask: What is your stance on the Ukraine war?

    • letranger (he/him)@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      hi, you are correct in an interpretation - my understanding is that the way marxists tend to analyse subjects is through how the broader system in general functions.

      Trying to think of an example i probably would say something like, the story of the scorpion and the frog, while some would interpret that the fault of the drowning of the pair was due to the venom in the scorpion’s stinger or the individual scorpion.

      mean while the marxist would interpret that it was in the inherent nature of the scorpian to doom them, and from their interactions at the beginning of the conversation the dominos began to fall. the last domino in the chain being the perishing of both. (or you could go even further and say new life would spawn from the remains)

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        1 year ago

        Norhing is forever, nobody is here with a reason, we are all going to die.

        But ukraine is not comparable to the helpless stupid frog in this story. They know about his nature to doom.

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          1 year ago

          i think we are at a misunderstanding, the story of the frog and the scorpion was not a interpretation of the ukraine war, but an attempt of how marxists analyse systems that spawn results such as wars.

          it was to help be an abstract explanation of a way of thinking, and not suppose to be a 1 to 1 representation of the war.

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            1 year ago

            But how does this way of thinking lead to supporting hitler(putin)?

            Im not saing you do, but this seems to be the trend here.