I’m talking about deeply held beliefs you have that many might disagree with here or deem to be incompatible with Marxist ideology. I’m interested because I doubt everyone here is an ideological robot who all share the same uniformity in belief

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      I believe revolution in the imperial core will only become possible once the conditions deteriorate to a sufficient level that most people no longer benefit from a continuation of the status quo. This will happen when they have lost enough of their imperial control over the rest of the world that they can no longer afford to maintain their material conditions to an acceptable level for existence for the majority of people, which requires that they lose the ability to freely steal the resources and exploit the labor of the global south, that they lose the ability to extract superprofits from underdeveloped countries through neo-colonial unequal exchange, and finally that their financial monopolies are pushed out and they are no longer able to coast by on the “free lunch” of monopoly rents.

      This is why the rapid and real development that is being achieved through mechanisms like the Belt and Road Initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (which represents a positive alternative to the predatory IMF), and multilateral organizations like the BRICS pose an existential threat to the imperial core’s global hegemony, without which their relative prosperity would be unsustainable.

      That is why anti-imperialism must be the first and foremost priority for revolutionaries in the imperial core, since no revolution can occur as long as imperialism has not been defeated.

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      Wholly agreed tbh. There may be sparse unfortunates who can get on the same, proper accord, but they’re too few, too far between, and too either disorganized, or organized on an archaic “class only” line that takes no modern assessment of the imperial core’s material conditions.

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      Perhaps yes perhaps not; I will say this has never been done before, but what else are we in the core to do even if this is the case?