• 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.

                  • CatratchoPalestino [none/use name]
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                    1 year ago

                    the onus is not on my proving they don’t follow some esoteric sociological theory of a foreign professor but on you to prove that they do. and no che using poetic license is not proof of a communist country following a hundreds of page long dissertation. next you’ll say iran follows it too since it says israel little satan and america big satan

        • 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