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In the first part of this article I pointed out that pro-Kremlin leftists are blind to Russian imperialism past and present.1 Today, regardless of their support of anti-colonial and national movements in Asia and Africa, as in the past, they oppose Ukrainian national ambitions in general and the Maidan movement in particular. None of them seem to have heard of Ivan Dziuba.2 Alongside the Russophilism, neo Soviet sympathies, material interest, delusion and ignorance that can account for this double standard among pro-Kremlin leftists, is the anti-Americanism that has overshadowed anti-imperialism in their thinking.3 Foreign pro-Kremlin leftists, I remarked, did not consider the possibility that Ukrainians might prefer the EU to the Russian variant of capitalism because their experience as foreign workers and reading has shown them the latter is more destructive and rapacious than the former.4 Such leftists do not take into account that Russian-style neo-soviet capitalism in Ukraine is not tempered by a strong left opposition, trade unions, independent political parties and rule of law -- what Marx considered the “bourgeois rights and liberties” established in Europe between 1789 and 1914. Neither Russian media nor pro-Kremlin leftists consider Russia’s neo-liberal capitalist government as imperialist – however defined.5
full: http://krytyka.com/en/community/blogs/left-or-russia-strange-case-foreign-pro-kremlin-radical-leftists-pt2
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