It’s not bad being anti-war, but easy to being instrumentalized when not understanding the full context or even normalizing the dismissal of parts of it as enemy propaganda. It makes you naive
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust. We Communists oppose all unjust wars that impede progress, but we do not oppose progressive, just wars. Not only do we Communists not oppose just wars; we actively participate in them. As for unjust wars, World War I is an instance in which both sides fought for imperialist interests; therefore, the Communists of the whole world firmly opposed that war. The way to oppose a war of this kind is to do everything possible to prevent it before it breaks out and, once it breaks out, to oppose war with war, to oppose unjust war with just war, whenever possible.
do you know what’s harmful? capitalism. i’d suffer every pain for the world to achieve socialism. yes, you might not believe it, having a comfortable life in the global north, but there are people willing to be harmed to achieve liberation.
Imagine thinking it’s bad to be anti-war.
It’s not bad being anti-war, but easy to being instrumentalized when not understanding the full context or even normalizing the dismissal of parts of it as enemy propaganda. It makes you naive
You need a lot of justify the loss of life these wars cause. Putting aside whether they’re justified or not, neither of them meet that threshold.
Genuine question, but has there ever been a war where the expansionist was justified?
No, and NATO expansion is being the root cause here
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust. We Communists oppose all unjust wars that impede progress, but we do not oppose progressive, just wars. Not only do we Communists not oppose just wars; we actively participate in them. As for unjust wars, World War I is an instance in which both sides fought for imperialist interests; therefore, the Communists of the whole world firmly opposed that war. The way to oppose a war of this kind is to do everything possible to prevent it before it breaks out and, once it breaks out, to oppose war with war, to oppose unjust war with just war, whenever possible.
–Quotations from Chairman Mao ZeDong Chapter 5 War and Peace
you know oppressed people stop being oppressed because of war right?
Or, war itself is a tool of oppression.
This mf thinks it was oppressive to end slavery in the US
This is just an expansion on “violence is inherently bad” which as an anarchist I hope isn’t something you believe
Violence is inherently harmful.
Some people and institutions do deserve to be harmed. Those people and institutions are almost never who actually gets harmed in war. War sucks.
do you know what’s harmful? capitalism. i’d suffer every pain for the world to achieve socialism. yes, you might not believe it, having a comfortable life in the global north, but there are people willing to be harmed to achieve liberation.
So would you oppose a war of liberation, such as the Vietnamese fought against Japan, France and America?
No, not really.
But neither of the wars mentioned in this ‘infographic’ are wars of liberation.
So you lied when you said war is a tool of oppression and you oppose all war
“The Palestinian struggle against the Israeli settler colonialists is not a war of liberation actually”
You might possibly be the least intelligent person I’ve ever seen.
Scratch
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bleeds, as usual
War is defined by the instigator. Israel’s attacks are not a war of liberation.
2nd time I’ve had to post this today:
Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook
I ain’t got time for a whole damn audiobook. If you want to make a pro-war argument, make it yourself.
People ain’t got time for reading and educating themselves, but have enough confidence to spew ignorant comments.
Its about ~30m read.
imagine thinking capitalists will just decide they are rich enough and give you everything for free.
And you’re going to fix this by having one capitalist country blow people up in another capitalist country?
vassals blowing up the emperor, yes. that’s how it usually works.
You must be seeing some very different wars than the ones I’ve seen.
In the wars I’ve seen, ‘emperors’ are rarely blown up, but vassals getting blown up is extremely common.
hence why we root for them when they are winning.
e g. Ukraine
Every goddamn war ever.
For little kids is fine.
No actually is not fine either, it’s better for kids to understand reality.