I have been challenged in my critical support of Russia for its invasion of Ukraine by Lenin who during the First World War said it was foolish to support Germany against Russia or vice versa, and that the people should seek revolution regardless.
This is written in The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War
The phrase-bandying Trotsky has completely lost his bearings on a simple issue. It seems to him that to desire Russia’s defeat means desiring the victory of Germany.
In all imperialist countries the proletariat must now desire the defeat of its own government. Bukvoyed and Trotsky preferred to avoid this truth
This is not an interimperialist war no matter how much we wanna believe Russia is no different from the US.
Lenin knows his shit. But Lenin was up against imperialist countries where it was a fight between every european country which were all doing an imperialism.
But Lenin wasnt up against an ultra state such as NATO.
Stalin had a good view of the positions of imperialist and antiimperialist positions that advances Lenin’s thoughts where the class character of a country was secondary to their position in imperialism.
Let’s try to avoid making out own version of “both sides bad” just because Lenin was right to call all divided european states fighting each other an interimperialist war.