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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have often heard ultra-lefts describe Marxists who oppose settler-colonialism and uphold AES as being "Third Worldists".

Looking at what people like Jason Unruhe have to say about the topic, Third Worldism does not seem entirely baseless (e.g. the proletariat in the imperial core more often being labor aristocrats).

So, what are our thoughts on Third Worldism?

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

I mean, the Global South is already doing our labor for us. Must they do our revolution too?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have never considered it that way. Although, to be fair, Stalin did comment on the need for each country to have their own revolution done by themselves without direct intervention from socialist states.

"You see, we Marxists believe that a revolution will also take place in other countries. But it will take place only when the revolutionaries in those countries think it possible, or necessary. The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country will make its own revolution if it wants to, and if it does not want to, there will be no revolution. For example, our country wanted to make a revolution and made it, and now we are building a new, classless society. But to assert that we want to make a revolution in other countries, to interfere in their lives, means saying what is untrue, and what we have never advocated." —Joseph Stalin, Interview Between J. Stalin and Roy Howard

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

yup i enjoy this quote a lot, at the end of the day each nation should work around its determinate conditions, if there is no political will to do a revolution there won't be a revolution and western marxists have no right to downplay the struggles revolutionaries in AES have went through.

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