2026-09-15 13:08 UTC
My issue isn’t with the word imperialism, but with imperialism as an existing material process. I don’t hold to Lenin’s analysis because I prefer Lenin, I hold to it because Lenin described an actual existing system that I actively oppose. I do not oppose anything anyone may want to label as imperialism simply because they call it as such. As for NATO being imperialist, that point isn’t based on voluntary joining or not, but the fact that it is a military coalition of imperialist countries.
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@robear@lemmy.zip 2026-09-15 13:28
Respectfully, how can you not see that your response is simply: “If I ignore everything you wrote, and if you simply agree with what I want you to believe, I’m actually correct”. Rereading your original post, it also seems to imply that if Russia was richer (remember that it is not a socialist nation, the Russian economy does run on finance capital), you would be happy to classify its actions as imperialism. Based on this, out of principle should we not oppose these actions which are fundamentally unjust regardless of who is committing them?