• autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    Because in their times there were still competing imperial powers. There wasnt unipolarity at the time.

    • CatratchoPalestino [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      see I’m gonna trust lenin and marx over a yale and colombia professor who only has ties to the british. zero ML countries adhere to world-systems theory and for good reasons

        • CatratchoPalestino [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          I don’t think either call it hegemonism that’s a chinese thing and even then there’s a big leap going from hegemonism to imperial core

            • CatratchoPalestino [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              depends country to country at different points in time. obviously first i’d have to ask who’s side you were on in the sino-soviet split just as a baseline. or to go further, whether or not you support stalin’s decision to recognize and send aid to israel when it declared independence

              • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
                hexagon
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                1 year ago

                Im not sure where i stand on those things need to read more. Just want to know where those countries stand today and how it contradicts the concept of an "imperial core"

                • CatratchoPalestino [none/use name]
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                  1 year ago

                  the countries don’t exactly deliver press releases saying what imperialism is usually they just say “down with yankee imperialism”. do you want something like a curriculum on how the subject is taught in school? how these countries actually act?

                  • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
                    hexagon
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                    1 year ago

                    Well you said they dont world systems theory so i assumed you had evidence of that. Saying "down with yankee imperialism" is hardly contradictory. They might not literally read Wallerstein but if youre going to deny his development of theory and its applicability to modern conditions (that Marx and Lenin never observed) based on what you think the DPRK and Cuba think about it i would assume youd have something more solid.

                    Che said that the United States is the belly of the beast. That certainly seems in line.

          • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            I don’t think either call it hegemonism that’s a chinese thing

            wrong

            dprk: http://www.kcna.kp/en/article/q/90dfd7983762c4e09ba086c93f6c58b7.kcmsf

            cuba: https://cubaminrex.cu/en/diaz-canel-there-historically-postponed-world-waiting-our-agreement-and-action

            there's a ton of material released by the WPK and the PCC that talks about american hegemony

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I’m going to trust the DPRK who have never been wrong over leftcom ultras who consistently get it wrong