Russia isn’t fighting imperialism out of a sense of altriusm, though, as with all things, there are genuine altruists in Russia that do wish to help the world even if this isn’t why they are doing it. Russia is fighting imperialism out of its own desire for survival. In this case, it is playing a progressive historical role, even if it needs to transition to socialism in the future.

As for being in the west, I am too. I want to be a part of establishing socialism and ending settler-colonialism. Anarchism isn’t convincing to me as a former anarchist, I am a Marxist-Leninist. I think your idea of “trusting world leaders to sieze the world for us” is highly flawed, that’s not the Marxist position. The Marxist position is that we critically support anti-imperialist countries, and support socialist countries.

Further, your analysis of intellectuals isn’t really fleshed out in my opinion. Intellectuals are not a class, each class has its own intellectuals. The role of the political party is to organize the intellectuals of a given class and bring the political consciousness of the rest of the class up to the level of the intellectuals. This is by the people, for the people.