Time is on the side of the Russians in Ukraine and the Chinese on pretty much anything else when it comes to confronting the US empire.

But ever since the ceasefire in Lebanon and the fall of Assad I can’t help but feel that the Palestinian cause is getting worse every day. No one is lifting a finger for them except the Yemenis and it only seems that the Zionist fucks are getting closer to their objectives.

Civil war in “Israel” when? True Promise 3 when (lol)?

It doesn’t help that some of the loudest voices cheering for Assad’s fall where Palestinians and that sectarism is strong against Shia’s…

  • Archangel@lemm.eeEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Ok cool, a century and a half of Marxist analysis defeated by “if it quacks like a duck and swims like a duck.” I’m trying to meet you halfway here, if you brush off any kind of systemic analysis with ridiculous truisms then there’s no point to the conversation.

    Dude. Russia is no longer a socialist country. Half a century of Marxist analysis doesn’t apply to modern day Russia. It is an autocratic oligarchy now. If you aren’t even going to acknowledge objective facts, then you aren’t arguing in good faith. Pretending like Marxist theory has any relevance to Russia’s current geopolitical role, is purely disingenuous. It cast off that mantle completely, when Putin took over. His leadership solidified its current status as an emerging imperialist state.

    That’s why I said it “quacks like a duck”. If it checks all the boxes of being an imperialist state…then guess what? It is.

    And that reality has absolutely nothing to do with the US’s status as also being an imperialist state. You can absolutely have more than one existing at a time. Lenin might have argued that the “GOAL” of a capitalist Empire is to achieve world dominance…and I do agree with that sentiment…but the idea that imperialism somehow doesn’t exist until that goal is achieved, is ludacris. Imperialism is identified by the way it chooses to expand its influence. And Russia.'s current actions fit that description just as well as the US.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      13 days ago

      Dude. Russia is no longer a socialist country. Half a century of Marxist analysis doesn’t apply to modern day Russia. It is an autocratic oligarchy now. If you aren’t even going to acknowledge objective facts, then you aren’t arguing in good faith. Pretending like Marxist theory has any relevance to Russia’s current geopolitical role, is purely disingenuous. It cast off that mantle completely, when Putin took over. His leadership solidified its current status as an emerging imperialist state.

      What the hell are you talking about? Yes, of course the Russian Federation isn’t socialist, it’s capitalist. That’s why I’m using Marxist theory to describe it. What do you think Das Kapital was about? Are you under the impression that Marxism is only useful to describe communist countries?

      You can absolutely have more than one existing at a time. Lenin might have argued that the “GOAL” of a capitalist Empire is to achieve world dominance…and I do agree with that sentiment…but the idea that imperialism somehow doesn’t exist until that goal is achieved, is ludacris.

      Again this is a complete failure of reading comprehension. When Lenin was talking about imperialism in 1916 there were multiple capitalist empires. Germany was actually looking a lot stronger than the US at that point. So of course you can have more than one empire at a time, if you look at the literal definition we’ve been talking about all this time it specifically talks about how capitalist empires divide up the world among themselves. That’s not what I’m contesting.

      I’m not saying imperialism can’t exist until a single empire dominates the world. I’m saying American empire won the game so rival capitalist states no longer can achieve that monopoly capitalist, exporter of finance capital position. If you go and actually read the book you might understand the economic reasons why that is, if you don’t skim through it and only read every other word as you appear to have done with my comments.

      Imperialism is identified by the way it chooses to expand its influence.

      No, it really isn’t. You’re just trying to impose your vibes-based definition again, and this whole thread has shown that it’s incredibly useless. If I subscribe to your definition, I’m going to start reporting Palestine Actionists to the cops because their interventions sabotaging weapons factories have harmed Ukraine’s ability to defend itself against Russian imperialism. This is deeply unserious.