u/snapp3r - originally from r/GenZhou
According to Lenin, the five basic features are:
- The concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life
- the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;
- the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
- the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and
- the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed.
Does Russia fulfill this criteria?
u/sanriver12 - originally from r/GenZhouWorkers in a capitalist nation gain more from their nation’s defeat in war than from its victory. The working class can be empowered by their nation’s loss—if the war is turned into a civil war between classes, the worker against the capitalist: a revolution.
revolutionary defeatism only applies to the country you LIVE IN. A Westerner justifying attacking Russia’s actions on the basis of “revolutionary defeatism” either doesn’t understand it or they’re being incredibly dishonest.
Revolutionary defeatism means you want to see the downfall of NATO rather than frame the entire conflict as a conflict between capitalist countries to avoid choosing sides. Russia’s military operation prevented NATO expansion and that is a good thing.
u/ButtigiegMineralMap - originally from r/GenZhouThat’s a great answer. if USA never officially declares war and instead opts to use NATO to act on USA’s behalf, would wishing for NATO to lose be an instance of Revolutionary Defeatism on the basis that it would break up American-centric hegemony? Or would I only use it once the US Military gets directly involved?
u/sanriver12 - originally from r/GenZhounato serves the interests of US imperialism, US and nato are the same thing to defeat.