Why the Intl. Left Hates Putin: Is It Because He cancel SJW Causes and Communism?

Looking at posts on this forum, the international left here seems perpetually obsessed with hating,especially Putin.

When you look at reports like this, is their hostility toward Putin actually driven by his systematic destruction of progressive/SJW activist networks and remaining communist causes, or is it mostly due to broader geopolitical narratives?

Headline:"Russia, Four years of Putin’s ‘Foreign Agents’ law to shackle and silence NGOs"

"Under the "foreign agents" and "undesirable organizations" laws, the Kremlin targeted, dismantled, or outlawed hundreds of human rights organizations, civil watchdog groups, independent unions, and environmental movements. Groups advocating for prison reform, labor rights, and democratic accountability were systematically shut down".

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2016/11/russia-four-years-of-putins-foreign-agents-law-to-shackle-and-silence-ngos/#:~:text=More%20than%20a%20hundred%20organizations%20have%20seen,in%20a%20wide%20range%20of%20areas%20has

The story is based on a Amnesty .org news report

Nope

He is rightfully hated by most for being a murderous, bigoted, spiteful, greedy bastard. And that is being generous.

Nonsensical headline too but whatever, par for your course.

1 minute ago, TimBKK said:

Nope

He is rightfully hated by most for being a murderous, bigoted, spiteful, greedy bastard. And that is being generous.

Nonsensical headline too but whatever, par for your course.

Thanks for sharing

Setting aside the political assassinations, my point is about the activist network model itself. That exact same NGO and social activist agenda is what the far left is pushing in America today.

Groups like the DSA and progressive NGO networks rely on social activism and identity politics to rewrite norms and push state policy. Whether in Moscow or Washington, the playbook of using activist groups to force social engineering is identical.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by riclag

why is there complete silence on his alliance with Iran?

he actively backs an international state sponsor of terrorism, supplying them with tech and military support while relying on Iranian drones.

If people on the left are going to judge him purely through a moral lens rather than a geopolitical one, ignoring his active partnership with Tehran shows a massive blind spot in the argument. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609027843

16 minutes ago, TimBKK said:

He is rightfully hated by most for being a murderous, bigoted, spiteful, greedy bastard. And that is being generous.

You forgot "thug". My guess is that you're Right of Center.

The Lefties can't stand Russia because Russia is a conservative country, build on conservative Christian Orthodox values.

The Right hates Putin because he threw a spanner in the Neo-con works to crash the Russian economy, install a forever puppet, and to Balkanize and break-up the Russian Federation, and ship the resources to Western interests.
The Left hates Putin because he epitomizes conservative values, not LGBTQ100+++ "liberal democratic" values. Anyway, European "liberal democracies are morphing into fascist states.

Reality? (We are in the Political Soapbox so I'll kick this in unattributed and call it "opinion")


It doesn't matter what Westerners think of Putin, only what the majority of voting age Russians think about Putin.

3 minutes ago, connda said:

only what the majority of voting age Russians think about Putin.

You really think that matters in Russian elections?

56 minutes ago, connda said:

You forgot "thug". My guess is that you're Right of Center.

The Lefties can't stand Russia because Russia is a conservative country, build on conservative Christian Orthodox values.

The Right hates Putin because he threw a spanner in the Neo-con works to crash the Russian economy, install a forever puppet, and to Balkanize and break-up the Russian Federation, and ship the resources to Western interests.
The Left hates Putin because he epitomizes conservative values, not LGBTQ100+++ "liberal democratic" values. Anyway, European "liberal democracies are morphing into fascist states.

Reality? (We are in the Political Soapbox so I'll kick this in unattributed and call it "opinion")


It doesn't matter what Westerners think of Putin, only what the majority of voting age Russians think about Putin.

GDP PPP! 😉

GDP barely grew since 2013.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MKTGDPRUA646NWDB