It is not just the right doing the smearing. Just look at some of the comments on this thread. Tankies out in full force calling him a fascist while in the same breath defending anything Russia does.
It’s almost like some of those avowed leftist accounts might have common ground with the right and center in trying to keep the left from being successful. They want a progressive left that is an electoral failure, either because they’re accelerationists who think if things get bad enough then their fantasy government will emerge or they’re just straight up saboteurs. The worst thing that can happen is for popular progressives to gain power.
It is not just the right doing the smearing. Just look at some of the comments on this thread. Tankies out in full force calling him a fascist while in the same breath defending anything Russia does.
It’s almost like some of those avowed leftist accounts might have common ground with the right and center in trying to keep the left from being successful. They want a progressive left that is an electoral failure, either because they’re accelerationists who think if things get bad enough then their fantasy government will emerge or they’re just straight up saboteurs. The worst thing that can happen is for popular progressives to gain power.
I haven’t seen any comments about Russia at all, except this one.