[lbo-talk] eXile

[Chris Doss]

"Lev" ("left" in Russian) generally means "person opposed to the capitalist reforms initiated during Gorbachev and Yeltsin," which often (not always) overlaps with "ethnonationalist" (the reforms being seen as an attack on "the Russians" by whatever group). There is almost no left in the Western sense in Russia.

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From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>


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I know Russian politics are weird (see: the National Bolsheviks), but isn't
the RNE's advocacy for the expulsion of non-Russian ethnicities, not to
mention its Roman-saluting, goose-stepping, and swastika-sporting, pretty
definitively something other than left by anyone's standards? Or are things
really so different over there?

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"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
lytlað."
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