Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[David Horn]

(01-31-2019, 08:25 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-31-2019, 12:21 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Putin is absolutely not a Marxist. He is a Russian nationalist and a supporter of Christian values which for him mean being against Chechen "terrorists", feminists and gays. I like to call it "locker room Christianity" (I saw such people on personality cafe), according to these types having gay sex once takes you to hell, but sleeping with 508 women a year just means you are a real man and Jesus is proud of you . Putin even praised the former Israeli PM for raping a woman! If I had to name Putin's political orientation, I'd call him a neoreactionary, or if you want to be more precise in his case that means Stalinism without the class struggle. Stalin's methods of control and views on culture and ethnicity are retained, but the economic system is not. There also is a "techno-libertarian" variety of neoreaction, focused more on worshipping the free market and condemning the majority of our species for not wanting it. They also like Putin for his tough stance on cultural leftists and Muslims.

I agree, I don't see Putin as a communist. He's a typical military dictator like Musharraf or the old Pakistani dictator.

If you examine the Communist system under Brezhnev, for instance, you'll b hard pressed to see any remnants of the class struggle there either.  It was a slightly less capitalistic version of a one-party state than the Chinese have today.  They also claim to be communists.

I've always subscribed to a three-axis political compass:

• Communal, with pure individualism at one extreme and something akin to a hive at the other,
  
• Economic, with pure laisse faire and Marxism as the extremes, and
  
• Authority, with pure democracy (or even anarchy) and totalitarianism at the extremes.
  

 
Feel free to add religion, if you need another axis.  I have from time to time myself.  All it shows is the complexity of human and societal interaction.