• Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    You're absolutely right. Stalin would never ally with capitalists like Churchill, and Mao would never consider forming a United Front with a capitalist like Chang Kai-shek. The history understander has logged on.

    • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yes thats absolutely comparable

      Having conquered political power in their own countries and made concessions against super powers in foreign policy is the same as lining up behind a succdem in the imperial core

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Having conquered political power in their own countries

        Do you know anything about Chinese history? Like, at all?

        is the same as lining up behind a succdem in the imperial core

        It's almost as if Stalin and Mao didn't live in the imperial core and aren't perfect examples for operating within it.

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          It’s almost as if Stalin and Mao didn’t live in the imperial core and aren’t perfect examples for operating within it.

          Oh wow is Tsarist Russia not an imperial country?

          history understander indeed

          • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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            4 years ago

            Is there not a difference between an imperial country and the imperial core? Imperial Japan was an imperial country but not part of the core, was it not?

            • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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              It's a useless analysis as the "core" has changed over time and the "core" we now understand didn't exist prior to ww2

              Tsarist Russia was an imperialist country

              Japan was an imperialist country

                • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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                  Actually no for this analysis Lenin and Stalin not lining up with succdems (and instead ruthlessly exposing them) is what he did within the imperialist nation he lived in and so the material circumstances are basically the same