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Putin is rightwing dictator

Ruling a kleptocratic autocracy that is Russia the left should never support him he is a right wing conservative thus he has alot of support on the right by people like Tucker Carlsson Putin is by no means a man of the left.
Heartlander · 80-89, M
A brutal dictator is a brutal dictator. It doesn't matter if others think he/she is rightwing or leftwing.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
@Heartlander And do the terms even apply? Or are them simply meaningless propaganda that covers the fact that a totalitarian government is a totalitarian government that has no real political philosophy other than keeping the powerful in power and crushing any dissent?
ShadowWolf · 31-35, M
@ChipmunkErnie This exactly. Autocratic absolute power, authoritarian, totalitarian. Wings don't really apply here. If that were the case, every king/queen/emperor/empress in history would have a wing associated. Better just to call the absolute monarchs or dictatorships.
ShadowWolf · 31-35, M
You think the left is any better? Look to the past, Russia had Stalin and Lenin. By no means men of the right. Instead, totalitarian left. Both facisim (extreme right), and communisim/totalitarianism (extreme left) are bad.
Khenpal1 · M
@Kwek00 It does not apply in Russia or China . Historically both countries were ruled by absolute dictators for last 1000 years. There is no right or left there.
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@Khenpal1 But Russia experimented with constitutional democracy from 1991-1993. And because that first and early experiment failed, conservative forces took over? When people use the term "Far-Right", it's used for figures that want to conserve ideas from before the enlightenment and oppose liberal democracies from the conservative side. I don't see how Putin doesn't fit in that category? Stalin and Lenin were both openly advocating against liberalism from a economic progressive sense, and Lenin even from a social progressive movement... It's pretty clear that they wanted to skip the liberal fase in Russia and go to what Marx predicted would be the next step. Altough Stalin is a weird figure in socialism, he still inherrited a left-wing movement that wants to go beyond liberalism.
Khenpal1 · M
@Kwek00 I still believe what Finns think about Russians is valid in 2022.
boudinMan · 61-69, M
lmao... thanks, i needed that.
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Right or Left Wing, he's an egomaniacal dictator and threat to world peace.
jimjim1969 · M
Stalin-Hitler. Right, left. Dictators only care for themselves. It's narcissism
Khenpal1 · M
Russia and region nearby is full of Putins.

 
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