EDIT: I'm very proud of this community. All the posts are making me think and solidly criticizing from an anti-imperialist perspective. Thanks, hexbear
EDIT: I'm very proud of this community. All the posts are making me think and solidly criticizing from an anti-imperialist perspective. Thanks, hexbear
I guess some people are understandably knee-jerky about the "Neither Washington nor Moscow" rhetoric that often dominates Western leftist spaces. Some take any indictment of Russia as an aspiring imperial power (which it is) to mean that you see them in the same condemning light as the West.
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Yup. I should also add that, while I echo the idea that Revolutionary Defeatism should take priority and that Leftists should be hard at work opposing their own imperial governments, the accusation from libs that we're supportive of Russia is something that needs to be combated, as it has been an effective thought-canceller even before this conflict (see: Iraq War opposers being called Saddam's Lackeys). Easier said than done, but needs to be considered.