• b3nsn0w@pricefield.org
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    1 year ago

    Yes, Russia is being extremely anti-imperialist in Ukraine, and it’s also China’s anti-imperialism that’s threatening Taiwan. Tankies just hate the west, they don’t have principles.

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      1 year ago

      To be more precise it is anti-US-imperialism and hegemony, which itself is a fine sentiment but when you’re willing to let any right wing dictator lead that fight you’ve really lost any credibility as a leftist.

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        I would argue that Russia was imperialist during the tsar empire, the Soviet union and today. It just never stopped exploiting their colonies (at least everything east of the Ural are colonies inhabited by indigenous communities not recognized in their fight for freedom) and the Soviet union smashed all the attempts to create a socialist community that was beyond bolshevism like the black army in Ukraine or the anarchosyndicalists in Spain. As a leftist myself I don’t see any reason to have solitary with Soviets and people who refere positively to them.

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        yeah, makes sense, but exactly like you said, credibility is important. being anti-imperialist in general with a focus on us imperialism is very different from being against only american imperialism while actively supporting the imperialism of other countries such as russia or china

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      Tankies just hate the west, they don’t have principles.

      They do have a principle: “The cruelty is the point”. This is usually used for far-right groups, who use conservatism as an excuse to hurt people, but it applies just as well to those who use anti-US sentiment to hurt people.