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Personally, I fail to see why many Marxist-Leninists support multipolarity. The primary goal of the Leninist movements has always been "workers of the world unite!" and not "non-US-aligned countries unite!".

To be clear, in saying this, I am not endorsing US-led unipolarity. I am just saying that multipolarity is not inherently good as some MLs suggest. For example, the world in 1914 and 1939 were without a doubt multipolar, and those both resulted in brutal world wars which killed millions.

Could somebody explain why people support multipolarity so much?

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

For example, the world in 1914 and 1939 were without a doubt multipolar, and those both resulted in brutal world wars which killed millions.

Do you want to know why? The main contradiction of those world wars right now, was imperialist western multi-polarity, competing to swallow the other over, (with the exception of the USSR and the then-imperial-occupied global south)

The multipolarity we have right now, doesn't contain as much of those contradictions, but, in fact, is more ripe to anti-imperialism, including opposition to comprador capital, capital which not only penetrates, but rather make ravage and dependent a periphery nation to a core empire for its own designs, like with West Africa and France.

This anti comprador stance coincides with not only national bourgeois interest to making their own hegemony, but proletariat, peasant-esque subsistence farmers, and even temporarily-allied petit bourgeois seeking to break their own chains and make their own working class path, the latter who are most beneficial of anti-imperialist efforts. (though national bourgeoisie is definitely a force to vanquish, yet only dissolve when all of the world's capitalists falls with it as well)

That is why we support multipolarity against U.S unipolarity; it challenges, for example, the status quo of dollar domination, with its stranglehold of balance of payments, that force these working class elements in the periphery countries to work to the bone, for not only profit, but give off their trade surpluses to the U.S empire, for U.S prosperity.

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

Even if Russia is not an imperialist power currently, the nature of capitalism (constant consolidation into fewer and fewer entities, competing over the division and redivision of resources and land) demands that in the absence of an imperialist power, a new one will form. Marxists hold that the dialectical framework understands things to be in constant movement and change over time.

What is to say that the anti-imperialist Russian Federation will not simply take the place of the United States upon its defeat?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

What is to say that the anti-imperialist Russian Federation will not simply take the place of the United States upon its defeat?

Because China is going to eat both their lunch and there's nothing that can be done, short of the U.S. and Russia coordinating nuclear first strikes that somehow decapitate China's own nuclear capabilities, that would prevent it

We're already in a multi polar world, China just hasn't swung its dick around yet.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We’re already in a multi polar world,

And it's a world mired in conflict, oppression, disease, anti-communism, and fascist tyranny. I'm not sure what the appeal is.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

literally all of that is a result of U.S. and declining European influence. You don't see the appeal to an emerging communist superpower? Okay then

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The world was no less mired in those things during unipolarity, they just seldom affected people in the imperial core, so to us it looked like peace & prosperity.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

What is worse, neoliberalism or fascism?

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