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Why PSL’s Brian Becker is wrong to oppose multipolarity: it’s an essential step in ending the USA’s global reign of terror (open.substack.com)
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[–] [S] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Who said that Russia is communist? Why does Russia need to be communist for it to be engaged in actions that are objectively anti-imperialist?

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  • [+] -11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If the only two possible positions are Nato or Russia

    And one favors Russia

    Therefore that Russia > Nato

    And if the assertion is that Russia beating Nato would mean more communism

    And if the options are, again, communism or not communism,

    Then, by dualist logic, Nato = not communism and Russia = communism.

    Because everything can either be one or the other, using the same logic behind "Nato bad, therefore Russia good."

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Russia IS better than NATO. That does not make Russia good. But what they are doing is. You seem unable to distinguish between an action and the entity taking said action.

    "The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism;"

    • J. Stalin, The Foundations of Leninism, 1924

    Was this passage saying that a monarchist regime is good? No. It was saying that the actions taken by said regime in combatting imperialism were objectively beneficial for the global struggle.

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  • [+] -9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    "You seem unable to distinguish between an action and the entity taking said action."

    This coming from someone who equates Ukraine with Nato, which it isn't even part of -- and manages to twist national territorial defense into global hegemonic imperialism.

    You can't tell the difference between communism and anti-Americanism. One may be the other, but A->B != B->A. So you fall in with literally anything that is anti-American, no matter what, because you've conflated it with "maybe communism."

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