u/bakchod_techie

I have seen a lot of doping allegations on USSR athletes. Even the Russian Olympic Committee was banned before the current ban due to the invasion of Ukraine.

The western media and institutions are always biased against Russia, even though the USSR fell 35 years ago, and the challenge to western hegemony stopped years before that. Russia is banned because of the Invasion of Ukraine, but the same doesn't apply to Israel, the USA or any other nation.

So I really want to understand how much state sponsored doping was actually happening in Russia, or the USSR. Is Russia just targeted by WADA? If doping was widespread, why are there so few allegations on athletes from other former USSR nations?

Also in Sarapova's case, she was accused of using Melodonium, but performance enhancement abilities of the drug are widely contested. Also many athletes are banned, but they had used the substance before the WADA ban. This and the fact that Melodonium was created in Latvia, which means mostly Eastern European athletes would be using it makes me wonder if this is a targeted ban.

All of this sounds suspicious.

I recently had a discussion with my colleagues regarding high taxes, and relatively the poor services that we receive, especially in India.

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As a person who loves reading history, and as a revolutionary optimist, I think taxation and frustration regarding it, might be essential in raising class consciousness. The working class takes up the majority of Tax burdens, and the working class doesn't control the modes of production, hence they don't control the policies. The tax laws and regulations are made to benefit the Bourgeoisie, the benefits go to the Bourgeoisie, the burden is picked up by the working class. This leads to a lot of frustration. Personally, I feel this is very similar to the time of the French revolution, when the Bourgeoisie was frustrated by the tax systems and decided to take actions against it.

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However, I think most people come to incorrect conclusions about the Capitalist ruling class, and in many cases they end up defending the Capitalist, because they feel like the tax policies that hurt them, also hurt the Capitalist.

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One thing that the Capitalists have learned from Feudalism, and they have implemented well is that they are ruling through Pawns and instead of ruling directly. The State is under the Bourgeoisie, but this control is more indirect, through funding, and it is very difficult to track. In the case of India, parties receive a lot of funding through a shell account, or multiple small accounts, and this is when there is record, most of it doesn't even have any official records.

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So, although I see a frustration which is similar to the pre-French revolution era, it is difficult to channel it correctly.

I saw a few posts about India, and Civic sense issues in India and lack of education in India, therefore people are behaving in this way.

I mean civic sense is a very convenient excuse used by elites and wannabe elites, who don't understand the structural issues with this country and want to pin point the failure of this on poor people. Do we have many issues, definitely, but try to understand the structural reasons, rather than being ignorant.

Also, a lot of points regarding the lack of civic sense in Indians, are points taken from Racist western supremacists. Rather than understanding the conditions of colonised nations, and the reason we still struggle today, they easily dismiss all impacts of western imperialism, and instead blame and to an extent try to justify their imperial actions.

The left is not anyone against BJP, but rather anyone against the current ruling system, in favour of a egalitarian system. And to do that, we need to understand the structural issues with the current system. The left is not liberals, who adore western nations so much, they tend to give them a pass, even for their imperial actions.