December 10, 2022 By Stephen Gowans It has been a tough week for the star-gazers who run a platform called Friends of Socialist China, a motley collection of Sinophiles and pretend-Marxists who sup…
unless I’m just misinformed (entirely possible, but I’ve at least never heard a decent argument for Russia being imperialist), I assume those communists are using a very vague definition of “imperialism” (e.g. “taking resources from other countries”) and ignoring most of the context
Leftists who call Russia or China “imperialist” use such an oversimplified or vague notion of imperialism (usually “muh militarism!” or “they’re not a hermit kingdom and do stuff outside their own borders!”) that would make literally any group of humans bigger than a neighborhood block to exist “imperialist”.
Certain prominent communists in Russia also think Russia is imperialist. Pretty sure Constantin Syomin does
unless I’m just misinformed (entirely possible, but I’ve at least never heard a decent argument for Russia being imperialist), I assume those communists are using a very vague definition of “imperialism” (e.g. “taking resources from other countries”) and ignoring most of the context
Leftists who call Russia or China “imperialist” use such an oversimplified or vague notion of imperialism (usually “muh militarism!” or “they’re not a hermit kingdom and do stuff outside their own borders!”) that would make literally any group of humans bigger than a neighborhood block to exist “imperialist”.
You know what, I don’t actually remember what arguments were used. I’ll ask around
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