Right
At least the cernoziom will have plenty of bodies nestled in it's warm embrace,nourishing it before it's all over
Sorry to be a downer,but the bonnes temps are gone for the foreseeable future,I can only hope that only Ukraine gets tossed on the pyre
The difference is that these people need to be let go off a cliff
And some,I assume,are very fine people
Spit poison in the face of NATO
He should hide his head in a guillotine
Not to be rude,but this kinda reads like the reddit atheists complaining about Islam being backwards
Obviously nothing that extreme,but I don't see anything wrong with using a slogan that is used by most of the resistance in the area,even if religion is anti materialist at it's core
Should we scold people for showing support to the resistance in this way because we are enlightened communists who have weaned ourselves off the opiate that is religion? If the it's a good enough slogan for the resistance,it's a good enough slogan for me.
I would refrain from making any predictions on what the Axis of Resistance will or won't do in the future
They have access to a lot more information than we do and are acting in the most efficient way they can
I don't buy into the doomerism regarding the Iranian response simply because I believe Iran is competent and knows how to accomplish it's goals most effectively according to the greater amount of knowledge it has of the situation on the ground and is probably acting in such a way as to not potentially escalate the situation where it would put the lives of even more people at risk than now
The exception is the Zionazi entity
And,come to think about it,settler colonies in general
Already established imperial powers have the option to outsource the destruction overseas,whereas the settler colony requires that violence to be on its immediate periphery so it can expand
Z's clues
Extinct like the dodo bird for now
Old people love to reminisce,but the sentiment doesn't translate to any meaningful political movement
The Social Democrats are kind of a cartel party, offering benefits for votes, backroom deals type of stuff Young people are eurobrained to the max if they're not apolitical anticommunists
The only "reform" party that sprung up after a massive corruption scandal in the Social Democratic party was a mish mash of various currents,some leftish sentiment,but the euroatlanticist libs came out on top and now the party barely exists as a political force
So to give my very limited and not at all authoritative analysis about how the current political climate is, I'd say business as usual since the 90's, the SocDem Liberal coalition that's in power now we jokingly call the reunified National Salvation Front,since both parties are splinters from it,one "left" and one "right", the reformists (Save Romania Union) are a spent force and now any reform minded youth goes for independents as far as I know
Still,the youth don't really have any actual goals in mind, mostly wanting to toss the old guard out so we can be like the "proper Europeans" in the West, all anti-corruption,but pro-EU and pro-NATO
The Socialist party just barely exists and consists of two old guys who love Ceausescu
People like me are like the needle in the haystack for now
We aren't in any significant crisis that I know of(but maybe that's me being sheltered) so nothing to create radicalism
I'd say we're in some sort of very small and incremental improvement due to NATO pumping funds into our infrastructure and the war in Ukraine being an economic boon for now, with them having to use our ports to transport grains and such after the sea corridor thing went bust
The average Romanian isn't impacted by the war,unless they live in a border region like yours truly so it's out of sight out of mind for most people
Oh,and we had our own Far Right party rising up after 2020, but the people leading it were incompetent and now are stagnating at 15% or something like that for a while
And they splintered too,the mainstream one is pro NATO anti Eu and there's also a smaller one that broke away that's pro-Russia,but they're not really a significant political force
So I guess that's another sad thing,you z post in here, people will think you're a right wing crank
Still, Romanians aren't too happy with Ukraine either, mainly due to a minority rights issue concerning the "Moldovan" identity which is a big sticking point for Romanians seeing as they think the Romanians and Moldovans are one and the same and that the usage of that term is a holdover from the USSR and it has to do with Russian imperialism
Ukraine also has regions which were part of Romania so that's another sticking point for the nationalists
Sorry for the tangent
So,to finish it off,I'd say the left is kind of dead for now, barring some old farts who reminisce about Ceausescu and westoid type Anarcho-NATOists in the youth if they have any vaguely leftist sentiment
I haven't read enough theory to properly say where I fall specifically on the ideological spectrum,but I'd say I'm in the ML ballpark
People like me are probably very few and far between, especially if you wanna look for socially progressive ML's
LGBTQ people here have a very hard time and they're only now beginning to see some degree of acceptance in the biggest cities
I can't speak on the political sentiment in the LGBTQ community here,as I have not had the occasion to really interact with it,but the vibe I got was sadly pro-western and pro-NATO as is the case with most of the youth
Keep in mind I don't go out much,so this is what I gathered mostly from vibes, interaction with my friend group and reading the news,so it is in no way a comprehensive analysis
Depends on a multitude of factors
I'm Romanian,living in Romania, but I will admit my knowledge of the communist period doesn't go far from what we're taught in school and some less anti communist sources, but it's not much, so I won't be giving out any takes on what we had more than, some good,some bad
Pre Ceausescu mostly alright, considering WW2 had ended, initial Ceausescu ok, started to go far into nationalism, spilt from the Warsaw Pact wasn't good, tried to act more independently,ended up somewhat cozying to US, attempted industrialization financed with IMF loans-very bad move, led to austerity, this is where most criticism of the regime comes,seeing as there were actual shortages and people had to wait in line for basic goods this being done to pay off the loans, ironically the debt was paid in full in early 1989, too little too late, legitimate discontent used as fig leaf for military coup backed by western interests in December,start of shock therapy and abysmal poverty,and till now mostly corruption scandals and trying to recover from that period
Plenty to criticize (draconian abortion ban, abysmal orphanage conditions that scarred a generation of kids, excesses like the People's Palace that replaced an entire old quarter of Bucharest, poorly trying to copy the real popularity the Kim family had in Korea, nationalistic historical revisionism, obsessive focus on the dacian side of the Romanian ethnogenesis as the core of Romanian identity, trying to appeal to both sides in Israel and Palestine), but overall created the basis of what we have today (we still depend on the housing they built and the infrastructure from those times) and took a mostly illiterate and poorly developed nation into the modern age with all the growing pains that process involves
That's the extent of what I can say, I would welcome more well read commrades to correct and add to my very limited summary and provide additional context that could help you
To close off, you should expect this to be a lengthy process, I know from experience how deep the anticommunism runs in Romanians, this having to do with it being imposed by the USSR for a good reason, but still tapping into more or less two centuries worth of previous attempts by Tzarist Russia to add Romania to itself led people to believe the communist period was a continuation of previous Russian imperialism, and the previous things I mentioned, and this goes doubly for those who left,as they were the ones most disillusioned by the failure of capitalism to save post communist Romania, leading them to develop an inferiority complex and blame the "communist heritage" the country had
Oh,and as a final addition,if they make any mention of the "Social Democratic" party that is in power in a coalition with the liberals at the moment as being some "red plague", dismiss that out of hand
Both big right wing parties in Romania at the moment have their roots in the "Front of National Salvation" in the nineties, a political party created by those who orchestrated the military coup and were in power for most of the nineties, they are as communist as Labor is, though forced to be somewhat less rabid in the neoliberalism department due to the circumstances present here,they are peoples favorite thing to point to and pretend the PCR(communist party) is still alive and to blame for all of modern Romania's ills (corruption mostly)
Fair enough
Personally I'm still here for the time being,but in a year I'll be doing the Romanian Hajj to the west so I can continue my studies
One small disagreement I have is that,while impressive,Casa Poporului maybe wasn't the best idea. It tore down a lot of historic areas and frankly,if we really needed a Romanian Pentagon that badly,we could have built one on the outskirts of Bucharest,or not smack dab in the center of the city.