Pol Pot also defined himself as Marxist-Leninist. I feel like lines are being blurred everywhere.
Does Lukashenko deserve our critical support in defiance of Western hegemony?
Pol Pot also defined himself as Marxist-Leninist. I feel like lines are being blurred everywhere.
Does Lukashenko deserve our critical support in defiance of Western hegemony?
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Yes.
No. You can not sidestep this. The construction of this pre-requisite is well underway but incomplete. Russian finance capital is an interesting topic though and worth getting into if you have time.
Exports of commodities are not exports of capital. There is a distinction here, the export of capital is different to the export of commodity. You can't use commodity export as a tickbox here.
Literally every socialist country in the world today is a WTO member except the DPRK. It's an organisation that represents 96% of all global trade, membership does not mean imperialist power within it. Russia has within the WTO prevented powers being used to advance the western imperialist project.
What? There is no "posturing" around them. NATO is trying to colour revolution states into neoliberalism one by one and Russia is simply acting as a barrier to that helping states to prevent it.
We meet 2 of these. Not 5. 1 and 3 are met, 3 is met because Russian banks take part in considerable export of capital through investment in projects that generate debts for other countries.
We do not meet the bar for imperialism. And we can objectively point to plenty of anti-imperialist actions Russia undertakes. These may be because Russia itself wants to be the imperialist state in future but that does not change the fact that it is currently in opposition to the imperialist project in the world, it is not a competing imperialist power, we only have one imperialist project underway, that of the NATO aligned neoliberal west alliance of finance capital.
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