bring leftcommunism to venezuela

Can you stop with fantasizing about actual socialist states being leftcom. It’s gross.

for what its worth, the PSL people that i’ve met have been the friendliest and most approacheable people i’ve had the chance to talk to in the US!

i know vijay and tricontinental quite well! my issue right now is more of a “how do i explain this to someone else” rather than how to dive deeper (i am afraid i am too deep), so short clips with good examples of rhetoric are very helpful.

vijay’s video is just what i needed! thank you for the all the other links too

I know it’s sisyphean talking to western leftists and even newbie commies but. god. why is it so common for people’s understanding of imperialism being, like, aesthetic. Imperialism is when bigger country does anything with/to another smaller country. By virtue of power imbalance, there wasn’t real consent it means the smaller party was coerced. Expansionism means not just territory acquisition it also means spreading influence and making allies. It’s frankly absurd.

usually my brain just short circuits when these “points” are brought up. i dont know how to approach such oversimplifications. thank you for the website link btw, it looks super nice!

thanks!

the introductory post is so good! will definitely take some time to look through it

As for China, I’d just ask them what “expansion” it’s been doing for the past few decades.

they mentioned BRI as economic imperialism… i was kind of baffled tbh.

debunking is sort of how i approached it so far, but i think people perceive it as “excuses” and not actual reasonings

thank you! i vaguely remembered this thread and was going to ping you about it. from your comment there:

Unless your definition of “imperialism” is just “when country does things outside of its own borders”

unfortunately this is my biggest roadblock in conversations by far. there is a refusal to engage with the topic in depth and a contentedness with “if country does thing outside the country, then its imperialist” that i cant seem to break.