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100 years ago it was Russia, war torn and poor. Where is it today, if there even is one?

It seems so many people understand a stateless classless society as being, basically, a commune scaled up. That's obviously not the case, but I can't figure out how exactly it would be administered, would there be some analogous form of police?

The movie, as is obvious to anyone who has even read it's Wikipedia page, seems to be a pretty obvious critique of capitalism. The problem is the solution the movie finds for the problems of capitalism. It wants the head, the ruling class, and the hands, the working class, to be mediated and united by the heart. If you've brushed on the history of fascist movements in the early 20th century this should be incredibly familiar to you. It promotes a "resolution of class conflict" not that dissimilar to the corporatism that was espoused by Mussolini or the many petty dictatorships of the Americas and eastern Europe.

Following Estonia's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the country engaged in a fast-paced neoliberal transition to secure its alliance with the West. Simultaneously, the newly independent state decided to exclude the 500,000 Soviet migrants living in Estonia from its citizenry, thereby making a third of its population stateless. The aim of this article is to explore how the three political projects of independent Estonia – that is, creating and maintaining the ethnonationalist citizenship regime, the country's neoliberal transition and Estonia's Westward integration through a “Return to Europe” – have converged, mutually reinforced each other, and become irrevocably intertwined. To this end, the article traces the historical, material and discursive production of statelessness in Estonia. The initial exclusion of Soviet migrants from citizenship was justified on the basis of “restoring” Estonia to its pre-USSR demographic composition. While many left, those who stayed have been treated as a disposable population and face a disproportionally high incarceration rate. This article contributes to the literature on the intersections between ethnonationalism and neoliberalism by demonstrating how the continued mistreatment of the stateless in Estonia has been justified through neoliberal rationality, which casts the domain of the political into an economic register through the valorisation of individual responsibility. We further show how the emergence of neoliberalism has been linked with Orientalist narratives that simultaneously framed the country's economic reforms and ethnonationalist citizenship regime. As such, the Estonian post-independence experience demonstrates how neoliberalism is inherently compatible with ethnonationalist policies, especially when mediated through Orientalist logics.

• Karl Patrick Norberg writes in 2023, King's College London.

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I realise now that the main problem here was my post on Hexbear, It was shitty and failed to get across my actual views. I still wish I could've been allowed to properly discuss it, but I understand the decision to ban me. Looking at my original post, I can very much get why that is ban worthy, even though that wouldn't be my decision. What happened happened, as much as I'd like to further expand upon my views, I'll try not to waste your time by trying to explain my views that I fully do not understand, that I've developed throughout the process of arguing with people in the comments. I feel silly for making this such a big deal, sorry. You could look through my replies here to see a further expounded on version of this post here. It really boils down to misunderstanding and semantics, I agree with most of the substance of the comments on this post on their face, it is just that often argued in favour of things I didn't mean to. My view of anti-Semitism boils down to, yes it is present, but it is not systemic. As I already mentioned, you can look through the replies if you want to see more of that

People really seem to struggle to realise how different they are. Hamas is not ISIS, that should be obvious to anyone with cursory knowledge on the history of the region. Hamas, Hezbollah and Ansar'Allah are not going to, nor have the capacity to, gut gay people and women who don't wear a niqab or hijab. They are not Salafists, for the love of Christ.

The only reason people compare these wildly different groups, is because they all (at least claim to) adhere to Islamic principles. If you think for even a second, you'd realise how ridiculous this is. It's like comparing the CDU to the KKK or even the Spanish Falange because they're all Christian, in some way or another.

It's plain ridiculous, though the liberal (and conservative) types never seem to get it.

They have seen a meteoric rise in recent years. Their sister/front organisations like ANSWER, Codepink, People's Forum, BTnews have all become household names. When I look at protests in the U.S., it seems so many of them are organised directly, or indirectly, by them. In comparison, organisations like the CPUSA or the DSA are lacking behind.

How and why?

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I've been a communist for quite a while now, but it really seems that my "activism" has solely been focused on arguing with people online. I've attended one public meeting organized by a local pro-Palestinian organisation, that's it.

A big portion of the reason for that is most likely me being lazy, but I feel that's not the whole story here. You see here in Estonia, a nation the size of a small city anywhere else in the world, there are zero outlets for real left wing activism (besides the pro-Palestinian organisation I mentioned before).

I've made this kind of post before, i failed to find a satisfying answer. Nearly all of them required a pre-existing foundation onto which something could be built — that does not exist here. Decades of neoliberal indoctrination, nationalist posturing and the hollowing out of whatever was left of the old communist parties have led here.

The attitude has drastically shifted to the right, people openly talk about the Russian minority being a problem needing to be dealt with. Everything is couched in euphemisms, of course. But the message is understood. After all, imagine the alternative! "Little green men", as they like to call them, creating a fifth column inside the nation. How horrible!

I'll reiterate the title — what do I do? As much as I'd love to just create the vanguard party, that is not realistic. If that were feasible, then the world revolution would have already been completed. A party needs mass backing, it cannot simply be 1 or 2 people deciding to soap box. A party also cannot just be created, it needs to form. It is an organic growth, something that responds to it's environment and adapts to it. You cannot plant a flower seed in infertile soil, in the wrong season, and then expect it to miraculously blossom that night. If it is necessary to branch out from the level of a book club, then that will be done. If the situation proves a vanguard necessary, and the prerequisite organisation is there, only then is the formation of a vanguard even to be considered.

On that note, where do I begin then? I do not even know where to find like-minded individuals, such spaces simply do not exist.

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