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[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Its a really confusing world we're living in.

I don't super US/Israel so I am happy Iran with Russia's help is able to inflict pain on them. Happy to see US getting weaker.

But I also don't support Russia/Iran both have horrible regime so I don't want to see them victorious.

I supported Ukraine initially because Russia is a bully but Ukraine supports Israel which is a worse bully.

I don't know who to support and who to be against any more

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The fact that you have worse words for Iran while Israel is committing a full scale genocide is pretty telling.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago

You would have really struggled with World War 2. "Britian and France both have horrible regimes, so I'd hate to see them victorious!"

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

This is why Marxists always and without fail return to imperialism as the primary contradiction in the world at the present moment, between the old and falling unipolar world and the rising multipolar world and the end of imperialism. Capitalism, when it reaches a certain level of development, has a compulsion towards outside expansion, which creates its own antagonism from countries that wish to remain sovereign.

Right now, the US Empire is the dying hegemonic power. There are no competing empires, just an international imperialist alliance that formed after World War II, when the US Empire vassalized the other imperialist powers. Iran and Russia are sovereign countries, and as such have been butting heads with the west, which wishes to imperialize them. Ukraine and Israel are so close together because they share a similar geopolitical position, as attack dogs for the US Empire against their adversaries.

Without an understanding of how capitalism turns to imperialism, under what conditions, and how this can itself be negated, then it's understandable that it would be difficult to understand the world. I really recommend reading Lenin's Imperialism, the Current Highest Stage of Capitalism. Imperialism has evolved since his time, namely from competing imperialist powers into a single imperial hegemon and vassalized imperialist powers, but the basis is still correct and necessary for understanding the modern era.

[–] EmmiLime@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (36 children)

Need to support Iran and Russia critically at bare minimum. They are the ones resisting imperialism.

[–] hoch@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This might be the most braindead comment I've read on Lemmy.

Wow.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

The era of snide vagueposting carrying any social weight is long over, ended by overuse in situations that didn't support it.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago
[–] apftwb@lemmy.world -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Russia is not "resisting imperialism". It is currently stuck in its own imperialistic quagmire with Ukraine.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

That's not really what they mean by imperialism. When Marxists speak of "imperialism," we mean the existing system of international extraction helmed by the US and its vassal states. Imperialism in the Marxist sense is economically compelled by late-stage capitalism, and is its necessary evolution, into a highly financialized system of plunder from the global south.

Russia and Iran are both sovereign countries working against this system, because both stand to gain from a multi-polar world. Ukraine and Israel are so close together because they share a similar geopolitical position, as attack dogs for the US Empire against their adversaries.

Without an understanding of how capitalism turns to imperialism, under what conditions, and how this can itself be negated, then it's understandable that it would be difficult to understand the world. I really recommend reading Lenin's Imperialism, the Current Highest Stage of Capitalism. Imperialism has evolved since his time, namely from competing imperialist powers into a single imperial hegemon and vassalized imperialist powers, but the basis is still correct and necessary for understanding the modern era.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Iran resist imperialism. Russia do not and only help Iran because thry share the same enemy the united snakes

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A. k. a. resisting imperialism.

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