Western leftists love to obsess over the ethics of their personal consumption choices, financial decisions and their relationship with the broader system of capitalism. The fact of the matter is you live in capitalism. Nothing you do with your money can be ethical. Just existing in the US is unethical because you’re unwittingly benefiting from the mass exploitation of the global south.

I’m pretty sure I’m definitely going to get downvoted for saying this, but owning property and even owning a business or landlording do not make you reactionary or counterrevolutionary. Back in the 20s it wasn’t uncommon for there to be Communist bars and cafes in parts of Berlin where the owners were members of the KPD and they would host meetings and events for actual revolutionaries. They weren’t worker owned co-ops either, just normal businesses with normal employees. Engels literally owned a factory, Marx liked to gamble his money away on the stock market. It really doesn’t matter what you do with your money as long as you’re not literally trying to fund fascists or whatever. Tbh we could really benefit from professional revolutionaries who don’t need to work to sustain themselves.

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No it doesn’t because I actually listen to third world Communists. They want us to focus on Anti-imperialism, and opposing neoliberal color revolutions is part of being an anti-imperialist. To ignore them in favor of siding with the Imperialists interests is to be a chauvinistic “leftist” that thinks they know better than millions of Communists who have been at this for decades.

Well for one, they can’t until US Imperialism is crushed. Any organic movement in a US regime change target will be coopted by the US. They literally cannot be free until imperialism is stopped. They would just be trading one master for another, but this time it’s a foreign master with insane military power. The only way to avoid this would be to have a very disciplined vanguard that has anti-americanism as one of it’s core principles. An example would be if Hezbollah took power in Lebanon. They’re by no means socialist but functionally they are a disciplined vanguard capable of withstanding imperialist treachery.

What you have going on in Belarus is an opposition that has essentially everything the US and EU wants as their platform but doesn’t proclaim to be pro-EU or pro-US explicitly, only “pro-democracy”. They’re even trying to downplay their platform, acting as if it was just a suggestion and that it’s not their main focus (it is), Democracy is (it isn’t). They actually took their economic privatization and austerity plan down off their website because they don’t want people to think “selling off state assets to create an oligarchy and imposing harsh austerity on the working class” when they think of the opposition lol.