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
If Russia is aspiring to be imperialist then why are its finance capitalists so few? Where are its institutions that are reaching to extract rent from the world?
I dont mind using imperialism in a more generic way but even then I dont see what is being gained from Russia’s invasion beyond a reaction or asserting its sovereignty against radicalized and armed US puppets. Is Russia going to unchain its bankers or spread its corporations into Ukraine? Or is it just military action at all that constitutes this? Is every large country or regional power small imperialist? Is Mexico, or Indonesia, or Brazil, or Nigeria small imperialist?
I doubt any of those countries, US put aside, can be classified either as imperialists, neoimperialists or small imperialists. But what do I know, bOtH cOUntriEs aRe cApiTaliSTs.
Actually watching how US is fucking over the whole European union has got me questioning if France should be labeled imperialist too. I think today it has a whole another meaning.
Lol. Imperialists can fight each other you know?
If we view Russia as trying to establish its sphere of influence in Ukraine as installing a pro-Russian leader, I could see Russia sweeping in to capture the natural resources. Wheat and oil would be the two biggest resources.
In other aspects, we might not view Russia as an imperialist power. But you can definitely argue that they fulfill some of Lenin’s description.
I agree that in some points it is imperialist. But then so is much of the world. This is why I prefer “semi-periphary.” Id say the Dominican Republic is semi-periphary in many ways, but to call it imperialist (or small imperialist, or regional imperialist) seems incorrect because it only fits with some of the points.
I get that. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the clarification.
Their finance capitalists are few because most of the world is under western dominance meaning that there is less places to export capital for them as late comers. This keeps them at a lower stage of capitalist development. However, every capitalist country will do all it can to become fully imperialist and Russia is no different. Its national bourgeois aspire to be major imperialists, they just haven’t achieved it yet as the west is currently standing in their way as a giant imperialist. Like again, WW1 Germany. If the Kaiser had the ability to take all of Britain and France’s colonies for itself it would. Just because it did not have such vast holdings does not mean it does not want them.