Famously, Marx built his analysis on Russian Imperialism based on their intrinsic genetics, and not the fact that they were Tsarist. Marx famously disliked Class Analysis and economic critique, preferring Liberal "Race Science."
A year before Marx’s death, in the 1882 Russian edition of the manifesto:
And now Russia! During the Revolution of 1848-9, not only the European princes, but the European bourgeois as well, found their only salvation from the proletariat just beginning to awaken in Russian intervention. The Tsar was proclaimed the chief of European reaction. Today, he is a prisoner of war of the revolution in Gatchina, and Russia forms the vanguard of revolutionary action in Europe.
a defensive alliance that just keeps bombing countries across the world for some reason
I don't think people know that NATO was involved in Korea, or the Baltics, or Afghanistan, or Iraq, etc. Seriously.
EDIT: I think the UN was involved in Korea, not NATO. I confused them. But I'm sure NATO was involved in other operations I don't know about.
Or that the airforces of three-four different NATO countries are in constantly scrambling to ensure the Gaza Genocide isn't inconvenienced.
The most defensive alliance ever enjoyed by warmongerers.
Libs love bringing up that
ackshually, Afghanistan and Iraq weren't official NATO operations, as if that matters.
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
That's literally liberalism.
Oh you mean the defensive military pact that was created before the Warsaw Pact with the explicit goal of gobbling up all of Europe and fighting against the Soviets while the Soviets were still trying to hold out hope that they could ally with the west?
That defensive pact?
Portugal was one of the first countries to join when it was a fascist dictatorship.
western leftists understand imperialism a concept mostly hashed out 100 years ago challenge (impossible)
A voluntary "defensive" alliance for capital is still a defensive alliance for capital, and voluntary is doing a lot of heavy lifting there
Voluntary is when you have a corrupt government that needs death squads to protect western assets in your country
They're going off of whatever it is in some obscure Hearts of Iron mod
This is literally insane, pretty much every conceivable people in Europe has been in an armed conflict every decade, for the last 5 centuries.
Probably around 1-2% of all humans who ever lived died as a direct result of European warmongering.
Liberty equality and fraternity was the ideal of French liberalism which never took into account class politics, meaning it is more than 1.5 centuries outdated from modern socialist theory.
It was an ideal created literally before French society transitioned to capitalism. It straight up cannot account for the demands of the class (the proletariat) which didn't even exist in force at that time.
Usually redditors are more mask off and proudly announce
. Must be some special subreddit
It's so funny because unlike how Jesus would have loved whatever you're thinking, Marx took extensive notes.
