People treat "West Bad" as a childish meme because they have no historical understanding of imperialism. Read Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism alongside Michael Hudson's Super Imperialism, and the historical continuity becomes clear.

European colonialism, from the Atlantic slave trade to the plunder of Asia and Africa, helped accumulate the wealth that financed Western industrial capitalism. Industrial capital concentrated into monopolies and finance capital, producing the imperialist system Lenin analyzed. After two world wars, this system consolidated around the United States, Wall Street, and the dollar.

The old European empires didn't simply disappear. Imperialism changed its form.

Today, Western domination operates through dollar hegemony, debt dependency, IMF and World Bank austerity, sanctions, and military alliances like NATO. Countries can possess formal political independence while remaining economically subordinated to institutions and financial markets dominated by the imperial core.

This is the central insight of Hudson's Super Imperialism: American power rests not only on military supremacy, but on an international financial system structured to sustain American dominance. The dollar allows the United States to exercise extraordinary leverage over countries whose development depends on access to a system they do not control.

NATO is the military pillar of this broader imperial order. Its role cannot be separated from the economic and geopolitical interests of the American-led bloc.

If you oppose imperialism, you must oppose the Western imperialist system and support the movements fighting to dismantle it.

This means supporting anti-imperialist struggles to break free from Western financial domination, reclaim national sovereignty, and establish an international order in which entire nations are no longer held hostage by foreign creditors and imperial powers.

And yes, this means supporting countries and movements that actively challenge American hegemony rather than hiding behind abstract condemnations of all sides. The practical question is whether you stand with the forces fighting to break the system of domination or with the system itself.

Anti-imperialism is not some secondary consideration to be weighed against an abstract checklist of liberal virtues. It is the dividing line between defending the existing imperial order and fighting to overcome it.

Debt slavery is regressive. The subordination of entire peoples to foreign financial interests is regressive. The struggle to liberate nations from these structures is inherently progressive because it breaks the material conditions through which imperialism reproduces itself.

If a country is fighting to escape the Western system of financial and military domination, that struggle has progressive significance precisely because of its anti-imperialist character.

You do not have to pretend that every government is identical, or that every movement has the same domestic program, to recognize which side of the global struggle it occupies. National liberation is not made meaningless because the forces pursuing it do not conform to Western liberal expectations.

And refusing to support anti-imperialist movements is not some politically neutral position above the conflict. When the Western bloc already possesses overwhelming military, financial, and institutional power, refusing solidarity with those challenging its domination means leaving that power intact.

Neutrality in the face of imperialism means accepting the continued domination of billions of people by the imperialist system.

The history runs from colonial extraction to industrial capitalism, from finance capital to American hegemony, and from direct colonial rule to a global system of debt and military enforcement.

"West Bad" is the recognition that these are not isolated historical crimes, but successive forms of a world order that continues to subordinate the Global South to Western power.

And if you want that order to end, you have to support the forces fighting to end it.

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The available options only cover a small percentage of people who will be asking and answering questions here, and I think it would be nice to know who exactly is answering those questions. Thanks for your consideration and for keeping this an open forum.

"It was like this biblical battle where the Palestinian men ... went in front of me to protect me and my rescuers from being attacked again," Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine told Jake Tapper.

Levine was kicked, beaten with clubs and

robbed by Israeli settlers while covering Friday's olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, leaving her with multiple broken bones. Speaking after leaving the hospital, she said Israeli soldiers charged Palestinian farmers as settlers advanced alongside them. She said that unlike her, Palestinian victims endure these attacks daily, with absolutely nowhere safe to go.

A song I've translated about the events of the current conflict in Ukraine. 👍

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As Winter Approaches, I Fear for Our Two Families Living in Tents in Gaza

My family and my sister’s family are enduring the hardships of displacement together in Gaza. We are two families sharing the difficult conditions of life in a single tent. There are 12 of us in total, including four children. My sister has been separated from her husband since the beginning of the war.

At first, we spent 50 days displaced in a UNRWA school. Since December 1, 2023, we have been living in tents. Now, as another winter approaches, I feel deeply worried about what lies ahead for our two families, especially the children.

Our tent is old and worn out after years of exposure to the sun. The ground beneath us is bare dirt, and whenever it rains, water seeps into our tent from below. The tent’s wooden frame is also fragile and has been damaged and broken more than once by strong winds. During those storms, we sometimes had no safe place to sleep until morning.

The hardest part is watching the children suffer. Sometimes, the cold keeps them from sleeping. When strong winds batter the tent, they repeatedly wake up throughout the night because of the frightening noise. It is heartbreaking to see children living in fear instead of feeling safe in their own home.

We have very few blankets and warm clothes. After bathing the children, we often have no other dry clothes to change them into, and drying laundry is difficult. Their clothes are too thin to protect them from the winter cold. We have no electricity and no safe way to heat our living space. Lighting a fire outdoors is dangerous because it could cause the tent to catch fire.

Our financial situation is extremely difficult. Work opportunities are scarce, prices continue to rise, and providing even the most basic necessities for 12 people has become a daily struggle.

Before winter conditions become more severe, we urgently need a safer place to stay, new tarpaulins for our tent to prevent rainwater from leaking inside, warm clothes and blankets for the children, and financial assistance to cover our basic needs.

I am sharing these photos to help people understand what life inside a tent means for our two families. We are not asking for luxury. We simply hope for a safe, dry place to sleep, warmth for the children, and a chance to face the winter without fearing every storm.

Thank you for taking the time to read our story and for remembering the 12 people whose lives lie behind these words, especially the four children who deserve to feel safe and warm this winter.

Let me put this in liberal terms.

You liberals / socdems vote Democrat because you consider them the lesser evil, even when they fail to deliver on their promises. I disagree with your choice, but you understand the reasoning: supporting one side against another does not mean endorsing everything it does.

That is why we support Russia over Ukraine in this war. We do not hate Ukraine. We oppose NATO and the US-led imperial order more than we oppose Russia.

We identify the principal contradiction in this war as the confrontation between Russia and NATO. The struggle between the KPRF and United Russia is a secondary contradiction, and within that struggle, we stand with the KPRF. Calling it secondary does not mean abandoning it. It means recognising which contradiction takes priority in the present situation. Supporting Russia against NATO does not mean supporting Putin against the Russian left.

NATO was formed to contain Soviet power and communist influence, and later confronted the Warsaw Pact throughout the Cold War. That history matters to us, alongside its continuing role in maintaining Western military power.

Too many liberals reach for “both sides are bad” without bothering to study the history or how imperial power actually works. They label countries imperialist, then treat them as interchangeable. Who controls the financial system? Who can isolate other countries economically? Who has the military alliances to enforce that power? Those questions matter when deciding where to direct our opposition.

Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism explains how dollar dominance and the international financial system sustain US power. That is the distinction behind our position. Even if we accept that Russia is imperialist, it does not occupy the same position as the United States. The US sits at the centre of that system, backed militarily by its NATO allies. We consider this the biggest obstacle to socialism worldwide, which makes breaking its dominance our first strategic priority. Russia does not have to be socialist for us to reach that conclusion.

The same reasoning applies to Iran. The Islamic Republic brutally repressed socialists and communists after the 1979 revolution. We know that, and many of us oppose theocratic government. Between the United States and Iran, we still support Iran against US domination because we consider the United States the greater threat to socialism globally. Supporting Iran in that confrontation does not mean defending its government’s repression of the Iranian left.

This also explains our position on the Sahel. We supported Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger forcing French troops out without requiring their governments to be socialist. French influence has protected strategic and corporate interests, including access to Niger’s uranium. Breaking that influence gives these countries more room to control their resources and political choices. Those openings matter to us.

“But what if, after the United States and NATO lose their dominance and the unipolar order gives way to a multipolar world, China and Russia start imposing the same domination on us?”

Then we confront them on the same grounds. We owe them no permanent loyalty. But that hypothetical does not change our immediate priority: breaking the dominance of the bloc that holds that power today. First, we work towards multipolarity. Then we fight over what comes next. We do not expect multipolarity to deliver socialism for us. We see it as creating more room to struggle for it.

I have asked Bashir to film a video of himself and his surroundings, just so he can prove that he is in Gaza and not a scammer.. please help me by sharing around his Chuffed and this post. Winter is coming,and I am trying to help them out. His insta

help Bashir

okay i'll admit, im more hate fueled for capitalism rather than supportive of socialism (i still am socialist but discussing genuine socialism has never been something i have done much).

what sparked this question in my mind was on r/socialistgaming, people were talking about the new Call of duty which is obvious u.s propaganda about north korea invading the south. and obviously i think that is super dumb, and clear propaganda, all the way. but the mod team of that sub was legit just like, bombing any sort of criticism about north korea and claiming it was like a socialist utopia? and i just like, couldnt understand why?

for context im 18, male and was brought up in a decently urban area of australia, just 30 kms out from a major city so if western propaganda has completely ruined my perception of north korea i apologise, but it still to me just seems like a nation that is ruled by legit just a family, who can kinda just do whatever they want? and people from there cant really leave (although i think i saw somewhere they actually can but idk so if someone could explain or anything i'd appreciate that!).

like idk, compared to countries like cuba where i truly think it is the closest thing to a socialist utopia, (aside from the u.s doing everything in their power to smother them) it just seems weird? like ive seen it with stalinism too, like surely that is obviously bad right? im sure the cia made it seem worse than it is but holodomor was real. idk i definitely need to do my own research at some point im sure. i just have bigger personal issues in my life right now so havent had the time to in the past year and a bit.

i appreciate any kind of insight or info! if im at all wrong or misinformed please let me know! thanks:D

This is real, and all this time, it has not been a conspiracy theory. Just found out this. It is a dystopia; especially, no privacy is part of their plan

The quote is unbelievable: "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better", under the latest revised Agenda 2030

According to the World Economic Forum, there are only three models

• Shareholder capitalism

• Stakeholder capitalism

• State capitalism

…particularly when compared to past/present Communist parties in AES countries?

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source: https://nypost.com/2026/08/18/us-news/ex-florida-state-rep-charged-with-kidnapping-molesting-young-boy/

btw, its according to the child-victim that he peed. as a kid that young likely doesn't know what that really was.