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  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    46·
    1 day ago

    So like does the user not think Russia is imperialistic? Why talk shit about the US Empire but eat up Russian Empire shit? Obligatory anarchist “states bad”

    • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      281·
      45 minutes ago

      The ML definition of “imperialism” is “an advanced form of capitalism”. It conviently excludes anything Russia has ever done. It also excludes the British East India Company, but they don’t think about that.

      Edit: if any of you tankies want to post that I’m making shit up again, then you ought to read more from Uncle Joe Steel. Not my fault his shitty propaganda made a huge definitional blunder.

        • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          15 hours ago

          No, I actually read shit.

          “Marx did in fact concede that possibility, and he had good grounds for conceding it in regard to Britain and America in the seventies of the last century, when monopoly capitalism and imperialism did not yet exist, and when these countries, owing to the particular conditions of their development, had as yet no developed militarism and bureaucracy.”

          • Foundations of Leninism, ch 4

          If imperialism hadn’t existed in the 1870s, then the definition couldn’t have covered the East India Company in its hayday.

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      Some seem to not be able to hold the idea that two things can be wrong at the same time. Others see Russia or China as lesser evils. Obviously those have their own “Monroe Doctrine” but nevertheless. Not my opinion, just elaborating on the why from my interactions in .ml.