Revolutionary defeatism does not apply when fighting a war against imperialism.
This is a prime example why adventurism is bad. It seems they were an more or less isolated group with a weapons arsenal which got busted. In the court case State and Revolution was used as supporting evidence for their alleged intentions of overthrowing the Russian government. This legal precedent will make it considerably easier for anticommunist forces within the Russian state to increase crackdowns. Ultimately these people actively harmed all organized communists in Russia and have nothing to show for it, nor were they ever close to achieving anything which could justify risking such an outcome.
Thats really unfortunate. I didn't know Russia used court precedent as part of their law practice. For whatever reason I thought that was a UK/US/Common Law thing.
It doesn't. Mostly. It's like this - court precedent can't be a source of law in Russia, but Supreme Court's interpretations of contentious stuff are effectively mandatory, because lower courts have to keep in mind they can end up being overruled if they make a ruling that goes against those interpretations. And the Supreme Court ends up dealing with contentious stuff when it's brought before the Supreme Court. So the Supreme Court can kinda set precedents. But not the other courts. Not even kinda.
It is a social precedent though. Not sure what kind. I'm leaning towards bad as being anti-war right now isn't a great way to earn support in Russia. So entangling the word "communist" with that isn't great.
Pretty sure that is some ultraleft stuff posted to undermine marxist leninist critical support for russia.
Wikipedia:
According to Udaltsov: "We are not nostalgic about the Soviet Union, we do not argue for a return to a centrally planned economy where social initiative was stifled, but we do want to preserve what was good in the Soviet system while adopting new paths to development; we want to see the social-democratic development of Russia."
Seems to be a member of the KPRF?
That doesn't sound like the KPRF.
The quote comes from the same wiki article that names him as part if the kprf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Udaltsov
That's what I thought as well, maybe I'm misunderstanding the quote
The guardian seems to disagree with his imprisonment, which is interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/25/sergei-udaltsov-terrorism
Edit: he seems related to the "book club" jailings that happened recently as well.
I have the full context of the arrests of the Ufa "marxists". I will share it later on so people could understand why it happened.
From my perspective, it seemed as a messy case where saboteurs misled new marxists into committing adventurism.
Context in Ru https://zona.media/article/2025/12/16/communists
Probably. However, this jailing is still bad news
That's why it is important to contextualize the news and even more for countries under siege by the imperialist.
Otherwise, you might end up making the mistake of feeling sad for a fascist collaborator posing as a marxist or leftist.
It seems to be reported as bad news in the western press, which is at least an interesting data point. I don't know this guy or his left front, though.
It looks to me like the western press is reporting this as bad news because it fits their "Putin = dictator" narrative. Every article I'm seeing goes something like "anti-Putin activist jailed, says charges against him are fabricated," etc.
Solidarity