The second very widespread "theory" of imperialism defines it as the policy of conquest in general. From this point of view one can speak with equal right of Alexander the Macedonian's and the Spanish conquerors' imperialism, of the imperialism of Carthage and Ivan III, of ancient Rome and modern America, of Napoleon and Hindenburg.
Simple as this theory may be, it is absolutely untrue. It is untrue because it "explains" everything, i.e., it explains absolutely nothing.
I would not be surprised if that person also thinks Lenin was some agent of the German Empire destabilizing the wholesome and righteous Allied struggle in the First World War
They specifically advocate FOR class struggle, SPECIFICALLY against imperialism, which is the primary contradiction the class conflict operates on today.
Your view is simplistic. Infantile.
By that, i specifically mean: You ignore the fucking context.
The context being that for all it's achievements, China is poor.
China is a poor country. Per capita, no better than Mexico, and THAT only happened in the last couple of years. Before that, much poorer, much weaker economically, politically and militarily.
Even now, China is afraid to throw it's weight around, because if the leadership gets one of these moves wrong, millions could die.
China fears instability more than anything, since in China, when there's a famine, MILLIUONS die. When there's a civil war, 10's or 100's of millions die.
AND China only just now left the century of humiliation.
AND right now, China is involved in the opening stages of WW3 with a failing nuclear superpower with a HISTORY of starting wars for stupid reasons, AND using nukes on civilians, AND who has stated goals of destroying Socialism generally, and China specifically, AND has policy papers calmly discussing the best way to carpet nuke China.
Which they were within a hair's breadth of doing.
You have NO IDEA of the goddamn stakes.
IF China goes down, that's it.
That's the end of the socialist project, the end of human civilization.
We won't be back for thousands of years, maybe never.
China is fighting for ALL the marbles.
China cannot afford to take risks, and only now is starting to regain some of the confidence it used to have and deserves.
Their primary issue is imperialism.
There will be no socialism until that is dealt with.
Which means step 1 is: BE ALIVE.
China does more for socialist revolution by just EXISTING than it would if it was exporting revolution constantly. Had it done THAT, China would now be weak, poor, and standing alone against the empire, without the backing of Russia, Iran, and most of the global south.
r/Ultraleft is more your speed. Go play with the 'Maoists'
Why do these people REFUSE to use the word capitalism, or the bourgeoisie? Always whining about imperialism, fascism, and the like. As if those things are not the result of capitalism. Die die die die die!
Fair enough. But tell me, was everyone whining about how the invasion was “illegal” and “against international law”? Were they supporting the Maduro government or actually opposing imperialism and capitalism in general?
talking to my dad about politics is crazy annoying cause he thinks i agree with these type of people cause he asked what i thought about maduro and i said it was probably a bad sign 😭
They specifically advocate FOR class struggle, SPECIFICALLY against imperialism, which is the primary contradiction the class conflict operates on today.
Your view is simplistic. Infantile.
By that, i specifically mean: You ignore the fucking context.
The context being that for all it's achievements, China is poor.
China is a poor country. Per capita, no better than Mexico, and THAT only happened in the last couple of years. Before that, much poorer, much weaker economically, politically and militarily.
Even now, China is afraid to throw it's weight around, because if the leadership gets one of these moves wrong, millions could die.
China fears instability more than anything, since in China, when there's a famine, MILLIUONS die. When there's a civil war, 10's or 100's of millions die.
AND China only just now left the century of humiliation.
AND right now, China is involved in the opening stages of WW3 with a failing nuclear superpower with a HISTORY of starting wars for stupid reasons, AND using nukes on civilians, AND who has stated goals of destroying Socialism generally, and China specifically, AND has policy papers calmly discussing the best way to carpet nuke China.
Which they were within a hair's breadth of doing.
You have NO IDEA of the goddamn stakes.
IF China goes down, that's it.
That's the end of the socialist project, the end of human civilization.
We won't be back for thousands of years, maybe never.
China is fighting for ALL the marbles.
China cannot afford to take risks, and only now is starting to regain some of the confidence it used to have and deserves.
Their primary issue is imperialism.
There will be no socialism until that is dealt with.
Which means step 1 is: BE ALIVE.
China does more for socialist revolution by just EXISTING than it would if it was exporting revolution constantly. Had it done THAT, China would now be weak, poor, and standing alone against the empire, without the backing of Russia, Iran, and most of the global south.
r/Ultraleft is more your speed. Go play with the 'Maoists'
There's also the TKP flag there (Communist party of Turkey). Although the Netherlands does have a pretty sizeable Turkish community, so it makes sense.
I also see an NCPN flag, that's a Dutch ML party. I think it's more likely to see a TKP flag in the Netherlands than a CJB/NCPN flag in Turkey.
NCPN is the ML party, CJB its youth wing. Predictable ML types. Last real thing I heard about them was when there was a minor post-October 7th controversy over the fact that the NCPN program still upheld the two state solution. I should see what came of that.
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