• Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Thankfully, the CPRF seems to be gradually picking up steam, as the system of capitalism in the Russian Federation ultimately is a shadow of socialism, and the working classes realize that. I’d wager we will see a new socialist Russia within a lifetime.

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          I don’t say so without basis, of course, and I’m not certain of it. However, contradictions within the Russian Federation are resulting in the working classes moving more to the left, despite the nationalist leadership. The liberal opposition is pretty much inconsequential, only the CPRF really stands counter-posed to United Russia, and much of United Russia is tied to Putin himself, not the party. It isn’t going to happen tomorrow, or the next decade, but in the next ~70 years? I’d say it’s quite possible.

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            The CPRF is getting better to a degree. Zyuganov and the leadership is ossified yeah, but the rank and file is doing genuenly good work. I’m in an org that is co-operating with them (NCPY) so I kinda know some people lol.

            Also, Nikolai Bondarenko, who is basically a popular hard-line Marxist-Leninist and the face of the party’s anti-revisionist faction has become the part of the Central Committee as of last year. So thing will change for the better I hope.

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              I felt a bit cope-ful when my lil town’s social-oriented local candidate deserved a dedicated smearing campaign by UR while literally everyone there was positive about them. That’s the ceiling for now as long as UR has that much regional power, administrative resource and just cash. I’m not a believer in electoral politics, especially not today, and not with local KPRF cell that (unlike yours?) is as good as absent in my experience, but there is a potential, a demand, that can be acted on if/when total apathy and ER gets weaker. Not holding my breath and still figuring out what may work there with some trial and error.

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                I’m sorry to hear that mate. Also I’m from the Balkans (NCPY for New Communist Party of Yugoslavia), not from Russia so I don’t know your exact situation atm.

                But I get you on the inactivity part. My local branch has been dead for a while too due to lack of activity. So I decided to start a party reading club lol. Wishing you luck over there.

                Our ruling party that is similar to UR but more opportunist, Serbian “”“Progressive”“” Party which is basically an lib offshoot of a fash party here, is losing support. We might as well act on It.

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        bloomer

        Don’t forget how extremely chud Russian politics are.

        They’re closer to socialism than the west due to history, structure, and relationship to global capital but that’s like saying Jake Paul is closer to winning a championship belt than I am.

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          Oh of course, they are dominated by chuds and the nationalists still have control of the state, but as a historical process the working class is gradually understanding that they must return to socialism. I don’t mean soviet legacy taken advantage of by nationalists, but actual working class organizing.

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            I was in much the same spot you are years ago, an anarchist studying environmental science and seeing the apocalyptic scope of the damage wrought by capitalism and imperialism and also reading Lenin and deciding fuck it, we are out of time “authoritarian” measures are necessary when all life on earth is at stake.

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              I say anarchist but at this point I am okay with any leftist ideals taking center stage, anything but blood money for the blood god.

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          Russia is more like a washed-up former heavyweight champion who still has a better chance at getting the title than some unfit rando, which is what the West is.

          Who knows? Maybe Russia can pull a Foreman comeback.

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            CPRF doesn’t try to establish links with unions and has ceded a lot of ground to capitalists in attempts to “establish an alliance with national bourgeoisie”. It results in morbidly funny things like outright capitalists having important leadership positions in the party and funding monuments to Stalin with their own capital, while opposing any attempts to shift the party to the left.

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    i can only wish our peasants ran our economy instead of bougie fucks.

    it’s also quite satisfying to know what they think of china. means we are on the right track, so much so they are seething about it.

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    It kind of seems like it is Bannon calling them peasants and jepstein is refuting him like “you’re calling them peasants but they actually out maneuvered us”

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    Does it describe exactly how, or at least what the effects were, of the Chinese using the cybercrime tools against the US?

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      Hard to say but I do remember sometime in the last few years it came out that the CPC uprooted pretty much the entire spy network inside China so it could be related to that.

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        Yea I vaguely remember that too. Another one of the times that US news covered it as “China jails dissidents in authoritarian crackdown”. I should jog my memory on that but I was reminded of it last year when Hamas executed Palestinian compradors armed and financed by Israel to spread chaos in Gaza and western news outlets reported “See?! Hamas kills Palestinians for no reason! You should care about these specific Palestinians and not any of the other half million casualties of this most recent part of the genocide!”.

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        On Monday, the security firm Check Point revealed that it had discovered evidence that a Chinese group known as APT31, also known as Zirconium or Judgment Panda, had somehow gained access to and used a Windows-hacking tool known as EpMe created by the Equation Group, a security industry name for the highly sophisticated hackers widely understood to be a part of the NSA. According to Check Point, the Chinese group in 2014 built their own hacking tool from EpMe code that dated back to 2013. The Chinese hackers then used that tool, which Check Point has named “Jian” or “double-edged sword,” from 2015 until March 2017, when Microsoft patched the vulnerability it attacked. That would mean APT31 had access to the tool, a “privilege escalation” exploit that would allow a hacker who already had a foothold in a victim network to gain deeper access, long before the late 2016 and early 2017 Shadow Brokers leaks.

        Only in early 2017 did Lockheed Martin discover China’s use of the hacking technique. Because Lockheed has largely US customers, Check Point speculates that the hijacked hacking tool may have been used against Americans. “We found conclusive evidence that one of the exploits that the Shadow Brokers leaked had somehow already gotten into the hands of Chinese actors,” says Check Point’s head of cyber research Yaniv Balmas. “And it not only got into their hands, but they repurposed it and used it, likely against US targets.”

        A source familiar with Lockheed Martin’s cybersecurity research and reporting confirms to WIRED that the company found the Chinese hacking tool being used in a US private sector network—not its own or part of its supply chain—that was not part of the US defense industrial base, but declined to share more details.