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You criticise society yet you participate in it curious

Was your brain surgically removed as a child?

Ruzzia

Why did you pick Russia over China, Vietnam, Laos, DPRK? Russia isn’t socialist and there is critical support for them at best.

Also preempting this I am Chinese, I live in a Chinese built house, typing on a Chinese phone, does that make my criticism of the genocidal imperialist Euro-Amerikan empire more valid?

I checked the modlog and you were very much banned for concern trolling about “Israelis being victims” while Gaza was getting flattened. You had another gem just before that where you fantasize about re-educating “brown folk”.

Both sidesing genocide is still bad even if you are “debunking” hard-line pro genociders. If your position is anything short of Israel shouldn’t exist it’s liberal Zionism. You should have nothing but support for the liberation movements of oppressed nations even if they don’t fit your pr standard.

I appreciate the clarification, but the framing still conflates two distinct phases of struggle. My original point wasn’t that anti-imperialism exists outside class analysis, but that in neo-colonial conditions, the form class struggle takes must be strategically sequenced. The slogan “eat the rich” implies an immediate, undifferentiated domestic class war, which in practice fractures the broad coalition needed to first break imperialist domination. When foreign capital, military bases, and debt traps dictate a nation’s political economy, the principal contradiction lies between the oppressed nation and international imperialism, not yet between the domestic proletariat and the national bourgeoisie who may also be constrained by that same imperialist structure.

“In any complex process there are many contradictions, and of necessity one of them is the principal contradiction which plays the leading and decisive role, while the rest occupy a secondary and subordinate position.”

This is why popular fronts with patriotic sections of the national bourgeoisie are a, but a materialist application of class politics. As Chairman Mao argued in On the Policy of the Chinese Communist Party in the Anti-Japanese United Front,

“We must unite with all the classes, strata, political parties, groups and individuals that can possibly be united in the anti-imperialist struggle.”

This is a tactical necessity to isolate the primary enemy. To elevate the domestic “rich” as the immediate target while imperialist powers actively undermine sovereignty is to misidentify the principal contradiction and risk strengthening the external oppressor.

The enemy of our enemy is our friend, the national bourgeoisie, when objectively opposed to imperialist control, can be a conditional ally in the first stage of revolution.

Only after national liberation is secured (when the external fetters are broken and the people control their own state apparatus) can the internal class struggle proceed to its decisive phase. At that point, the proletariat, having built its strength and consciousness through the anti-imperialist struggle, can confront domestic exploiting classes without the distortion of foreign interference. As Chairman Mao put it in On New Democracy,

“The Chinese revolution must be divided into two steps: the first is to change the colonial, semi-colonial and semi-feudal society into an independent, democratic society; the second is to carry the revolution forward to establish a socialist society.”

Great slogan unfortunately not how it works in the modern reality of imperialism and neocolonialism, the class struggle can only truly begin after the premier contradiction of national liberation has been resolved.

I didn’t realise it was personally Trump that destroyed Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and put all those military bases surrounding Iran.

“Nuanced” Both sidesing in the face of a genocide? Condemning the oppressors and oppressed in equal measure? Do you not see the issue with that?

One of the very few true things he’s said.

20 a day become one of the good ones

It’s sort of a core part of their shield, if great man theory wasn’t true they’d have to reckon with the global structures of terror they support instead of just blaming putler and the orange man while screaming vote blue no matter who.

Yeah I was joking about you being one hundred obviously, you are like 30 max, you lived through shock therapy and blame communism for it for some reason. Prisons do tend to suck but I’m not particularly interested in hearing your gulag archipelago tier “recalling” of those events.

Stalin was definitionally not a dictator

I am just telling you how things were from the perspective of someone that lived those times

You both were talking about Stalin and living through his dictatorial times? He died 76 years ago and if you lived through it I assumed you were an adult by the time he died.

I am just telling you how things were from the perspective of someone that lived those times

First 100 year old Lemmy user?

🤣 You are so far from a serious person. I wish you the best in life and hope you maturebas you age. 🤣

the fact of your mere association with your instance is enough to tar you with the stain of their bigotry

Fuck you. Stop lying. Try be a better person.

Pointing out imperial aligned sources aren’t socialist and have a narrative is no true Scotsman? Are you sure you know what that phrase means? Might as well just link a Radio Free Asia article cut the natopedia middleman.

You are disgusting calling me transphobic for simply using this site. Also what dictator am I stanning? I am simply calling out your lazy source that is clearly filled with American propaganda sources. If you take American propaganda outlets at face value you shouldn’t call yourself an anarchist you’re a lib. One who is severely detached from history and reality at that. I don’t support the Devs? I have never donated and there are no ads? I don’t know them personally. You seem like a shitty person and a petulant child.

The Nation, The Diplomat, Center for European Policy Analysis, The Week, Jamestown Foundation, The central Asian caucus analyst, The Japan times, The Guardian, transnational institute, The Washington post, the daily telegraph, Harvard international review, financial times, the times of India, the Carnegie endowment, Nikkei Asia, the economic times, lowly institute, New York Times, the wall Street journal, human rights watch, foreign policy, BBC, Tibetan review, Taipei times.

I wonder if something ties all these sources together? Maybe an ideological alignment? People like you give anarchists a bad name.

Lmao you should check the sources on natopedia before you post. Western tabloids and government spin off NGO’s.

He’s an Indian nationalist he’s not going to make sense when it comes to China.

Ah you’re a reactionary spouting tofu dreg and other nonsense. You should try look into things outside your nationalist bubble.

Edit:

“I am not at all calling China’s capabilities low in terms of creating a war machine.”

China’s comparative advantage over the past forty years has been poverty eradication, infrastructure build-out, electrification, and industrial capacity. Reducing that to militarism is either ignorance or bad faith. Where’s your high speed rail? Where are your clean streets? Why is your literacy so low? Why do you have so many shanty towns? Why do your tech expos have to pretend Chinese tech is Indian invented?

“India is what sends the disaster relief resources…”

India administers those territories. Of course it sends relief? Are you an idiot?

“China considers blocking natural resources…”

There is no evidence that China has cut off Brahmaputra flow to manufacture discontent. The projects are run-of-river. Seasonal fluctuations are monsoon-driven. You are asserting intent without evidence. That is speculation.

“China took longer to admit air-quality problems…”

China’s PM2.5 levels have declined substantially since 2013 after aggressive regulatory intervention. India today has multiple cities ranking among the most polluted globally by annual average concentration. If the metric is environmental turnaround after crisis recognition, China’s trend line is steeper. You are ignoring trajectory and focusing on narrative.

“Actual quality of buildings…”

“Tofu dreg” is a meme, not a dataset. China has built the largest high-speed rail network on earth, thousands of kilometers of expressways, and entire metropolitan regions within two decades. Failures exist, as in India, collapsed bridges, unsafe housing, infrastructure accidents. Anecdotes do not overturn macro-level engineering capacity.

“Destruction of values… erosion of older values… normal people coming out of China…”

I bet you love those caste values as you beat those dalits to keep them in line.