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
Let’s say for a moment that I run an island nation. There is a country nearby that I can neocolonize because its the modern era, and my country is fully developed while theirs isn’t. This is still imperialism, just smaller scale.
You are correct when you say that Russia is not at the US’ level of imperialism. But it does throw around a lot of weight regionally. Its the difference between domestic/household slavery and a fully developed slave economy. Both still use slaves, the 2nd is just larger scale. Both Russia and the US participate in imperialist activities, but to very different scales.
The petit bourgeois still owns their own business, they just happen to work in it. The difference between the petit bourgeois and the national bourgeois is not one of relation to the means of production so much as it is a question of labor. National and imperialist bourgeois don’t need to actually input any labor while the petit bourgeois do. Still bourgeois, just at different levels.
The Russian participation conflict in Ukraine is objectively for imperialist reasons. The Russia national bourgeois isn’t there for fun, they want to secure their natural gas and oil pipelines and prevent NATO from expanding into them. Imperialists don’t do imperialism because they like seeing people suffer (exclusively) they do so because it is necessary for capital to become imperialist after it develops enough.
Regardless of this selfish intention however, Russia is being forced to compromise with proletarian movements to get anything because the western imperialists already own most everything.
Imagine calling yourself a communist and writing this. Russia having natural resources and selling them is not imperialism.
Correct, Russia invading a neighboring country to secure resources is however definitely a trademark of it.
This is literal fucking Nazi apologia.
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NATO is the fourth reich. Can you understand why I find your proclamation to be utterly ridiculous?
You’re claiming the conflict is for “Imperialist reasons” and then in the next breath you state it’s to prevent NATO from expanding into them.
You are saying that Russia’s effort to prevent the expansion of the Fourth Reich is Imperialism.
I just… I’m blown away.
In case you didn’t know, Ukraine is not a part of Russia (shocking). They are manipulating the politics of another nation for their own ends and securing natural resources for themselves at the expense of another nation. This is imperialist. Even if there are reasonable reasons attached.
Ah, so I see the issue now.
You believe that imperialism = expanding your sphere of influence.
You are again ignoring that Ukraine lost it’s sovereignty long ago at the hands of the Fourth Reich. It was already a controlled state under the American Empire even not being part of NATO officially.
Your perspective is a product of the perceived ideological intention of the Russian state, which is heavily biased and not connected to material reality.
Imperialism is not conflict or expansion of influence, comrade. The fact that you stated Russia is fighting off the Fourth Reich and then called that Imperialism shows you are not engaging with the dialectics, but rather viewing the conflict through perceived ideological intention.
Is Russia planning to restore its sovereignty without any compensation? Only then is your argument valid, otherwise the Russian national bourgeois saw they had to strike now to prevent NATO from being close by. This is why they let Ukraine do whatever it wanted while it went full nazi post euromaiden. They didn’t suddenly just start caring about Ukrainian sovereignty 8 years after the fact, they just saw recent NATO moves and realized that they couldn’t put off the issue anymore.
So Russia’s fight against the mass murdering US Empire is only valid if Russia pays reparation? I’m not sure they won’t, it’s impossible to know, however this is a ridiculous qualifier to hold a victim of the US Empire to.
I don’t think Russia abstractly cares about Ukraine sovereignty, nor should they. This is not a game. This is civilizational battle against the American Empire, the Fourth Reich.
None of this is Imperialist, comrade. You need to understand the power dynamics and the material reality of this conflict and the state of the world before it.
Wars do not need to be fought “out of the good of one’s heart” to be valid. This conflict is about pushing back the Fourth Reich, period.
This is NOT Imperialism.
Do you see that now?
Well if Russia doesn’t care about Ukrainian sovereignty then congratulations they are being imperialist. A progressive imperialist if you like? Sure, but imperialist nonetheless.
Also cute how you say I’m immaterial when you can only substitute a metanarritive of some magical battle of “civilizations”. You are the one refusing to look at the class character of the conflict preferring to look along narrow nationalist idealist lines.
This is absolutely false. Imperialism is now when you don’t “care” about a nation’s sovereignty that has already been absorbed by the Fourth Reich?
Ukraine is already NOT a sovereign nation. And it is NOT Russia’s responsibility to restore that sovereignty.
“Progressive Imperialism” ahahahahhaha what a fucking joke. What a goddamn mother fucking joke.
As for progressive imperialism.
“But this Kievsky argument is wrong. Imperialism is as much our “mortal” enemy as is capitalism. That is so. No Marxist will forget, however, that capitalism is progressive compared with feudalism, and that imperialism is progressive compared with pre-monopoly capitalism. Hence, it is not every struggle against imperialism that we should support. We will not support a struggle of the reactionary classes against imperialism; we will not support an uprising of the reactionary classes against imperialism and capitalism.”
-VI Lenin
Here Lenin is stating that imperialism can take on a progressive character when compared to premonopoly capitalism and when used to crush a more reactionary class, such as Ukrainian nazi comprador bourgeois. However, this is still a form of imperialism and needs to be understood as such. It still is imperialism, even if there is a progressive character.
You are literally justifying imperialism to yourself in the same breath. You are the one who doesn’t care about Ukraine’s right to self determination.
Russia fighting off the sphere of influence of the Fourth Reich is not Imperialism, comrade.