• JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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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?

      • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        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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            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