The idea that workers in wealthy countries like the United States are part of a “labor aristocracy” bought off with the fruits of imperialism is nonsense. The best way to build a movement against US imperialism is to build the labor movement domestically.
  • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    Of course Jacobin would bring out an "academic" to find some flimsy redefinition of imperialism and shit all over Lenin:

    "First of all, they wrongly identified capitalism as having entered a new stage, which they called the “monopoly” stage, which I think is fundamentally flawed. After decades of argument and research from the 1960s onward, it’s pretty well-established that the evidence for a new stage of capitalism that arose by the 1920s and 1930s — superseding the competitive stage — is very flimsy. Capitalism back then was a competitive capitalism, as it has always been." ...

    "Karl Kautsky turned out to be more correct than Lenin on this issue, in that he predicted that what you would get is cooperation between capitalist countries, not competition. We are still suffering from the consequences of these misjudgments on the orthodox Left." :gulag: :gulag: :gulag:

    • FunnyUsername [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Karl Kautsky turned out to be more correct than Lenin on this issue, in that he predicted that what you would get is cooperation between capitalist countries, not competition

      This person should google these two countries called "Russia" and "China"