Be very of these false narratives which seek to bend the framework of reality towards a position in accord with the US Empire.
This is not “a conflict between two bourgeois countries”. This is an abstract, undialectical analysis.
It is adapting the framework of Western Imperialists.
This is a complex conflict decades in the making, at it’s core, it is a war between Russia and the Blood Empire.
The Ukrainian people are being used as a weapon by their bloodthirsty American masters.
I hope people here see how deceptive and devious this “both sides bad capitalists” narrative is.
It is poisonous to us communist communities, and it shows that western propaganda is very much able to spread on GenZedong.
Do not allow them to infiltrate our minds.
Godspeed comrades. o7
As I said below:
Imperialism is not when you have a conflict or power struggle.
Imperialism is when you have 800 foreign military bases, control all economic counsels, sanction and starve out human populations, forcing other countries to stay in line with mass murdering sanctions under threat of additional sanctions against themselves.
Russia is not even close to being Imperialist in any regard. It is a state that exists in a world that is dominated by an Imperialist Empire.
The conflict in Ukraine is not a kind of any “small Imperialism”.
That is a ridiculous and abstract position. You are abstracting the meaning of Imperialism and applying it to a country that has been a historic victim of American Imperialism.
You speak of abstractions and ridiculous positions yet you essentialize imperialism to a quantity and to a victim-perpetrator binary. You argue as if imperialism is not something which develops gradually as a process but rather something that emerges fully-formed or which only exists once it surpasses a certain level of intensity.
Would you say that the EU is not imperialist given the fact that it doesn’t meet your definition above? 🤔🤔
“meeting my definition” means nothing because it is not “my definition” that is the center of meaning.
To answer your question, the EU is part of the American Empire, they are synonymous.
The fact that you even pose this question shows how ridiculous your perspective is.
The center of the meaning is having 800 foreign military bases? Just whose definition are you using here buddy?
It’s remarkable that you’d flatten out any materialist analysis of the EU in favor of the terminally-online debatebro take that the EU is simply a part of the American Empire.
Given that there are well over 200 US military bases in the EU and “the EU is a part of the American Empire” then does that mean that the US doesn’t actually reach that magical 800+ number of foreign military bases, thus meaning that the US isn’t imperialist by your measure?
The fact that you can’t actually respond to the content of my question any more than you can help yourself from soapboxing shows more about your perspective than a question, which is intended to highlight the absurdity in your own position and to see if you are capable of addressing the contradictions in your own muddled thinking, does.
Yours is a grim parody of dialectical materialism; I’d call it vulgar DiaMat but that would be too charitable since it’s neither dialectical nor materialist.
I was making clear the real material difference between the realities.
Unlike you, I am not making an abstraction using the definition and then applying it universally across realities inside and outside of the American Empire.
Because I’m not an anarchist, like you.
The “reality” is that:
Imperialism must be global before it’s imperialism
Imperialism is about about many military bases you have internationally
If you have been a subject of imperialism, you cannot be imperialist yourself
Imperialism is a synonym for being a global hegemon
The EU has absolutely zero internal political economy or contradictions that distinguish it from the US; it’s literally just an extension of the US
Anyone who doesn’t immediately agree with everything you say is an anarchist
You’re a real winner, aren’t you?
People are down voting you, but you’re entirely right. Its not like we are saying that Russia must be fought against, we support it critically. This is the critical part of critical support.