“Make no mistake, today’s globalists are just the latest version of the Communist International (”Comintern”) and they cannot stand that Russia is no longer a part of that movement.”
Interesting timing on your comment.
Last week on another forum I frequent someone brought up the name of Gilbert Doctorow in the same statement as Scott Ritter, Doug Macgregor, and Gonzalo Lira.
I had never heard of Doctorow before so I went digging.
Doctorow is a self-proclaimed Russianist and Ruscist. He’s currently a close friend of, colleague, and collaborator of noted pro-Soviet Communist Noam Chomsky.
Trying to keep this post short let me say that this exercise in reasearching Doctorow opened my eyes with regards to Putin vis-a-vis the Davos Globalists and people like Doctorow and Chomsky who pine away for the glory days of Soviet Communism.
Doctorow and Chomsky are the ‘Communists in America’ you speak of. No doubt about it as they say so themselves.
And they both hold pro-Putin positions but with some subtle differences between them and Putin.
Up until I read about Doctorow I considered Putin to be a Soviet revanchist even to the point of Putin supporting a return to Communist Party control of Russia or a renewed USSR.
But what I realized is that while Putin wants a new Russian Empire that will rule over what the USSR used to rule that he does not want communism. He wants Soviet-style authoritarianism and in this much Doctorow and Chomsky support him.
Doctorow and Chomsky are conspicuously silent about Putin’s economic policies and economic strategies.
They’re similarly silent about the economic policies and economic strategies of the Davos Globalists.
Which leads me to believe that there is a schism between the old school 1930’s to 1980’s vintage communists like you mention and the Davos Globalists.
Doctorow and Chomsky want global communism.
Putin wants Russia to be an empire again and one that holds economic power over countries outside of its immediate sphere of control (like China with the failing Belt and Road program).
The Davos Globalists might have communists in their number but the overarching desire of the Davos Globalists is to kill off a fair number of the human race. The policies they pursue put them at odds with traditional communism that leveraged agriculture and industry to control the population.
The Davos Globalists consistently oppose agriculture and industry. These two sectors go hand in hand to make it possible for humanity to consist of some eight billion people. Getting rid of these two sectors is a means of collapsing the human population.
Population reduction puts Davos at odds with Putin’s Russia that is desperate to increase its population.
It also puts Davos at odds with the old school communists who look to those sectors as levers to control a population.
I’m not a fan of any of the three of them.
In any case, I thought you might find these comments interesting.
Interesting comment, I appreciate it. I will check up on Doctorow and Chomsky.