• 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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      4 years ago

      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?

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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

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              4 years ago

              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