Aren’t you getting that reversed? Kiev has been attacking the seperatists in Donetsk and Luhansk, civilians included, since the Banderite coup in 2014.

Russia has absolutely no interest in invading Europe. This is a narrative used to justify increasing European military budgets as the spoils of imperialism are drying up and the global south is gaining more independence from the US and Europe. NATO is a blight on human progress and needs to be dissolved for a better future.

Don’t get it wrong: Ukraine and “Israel” are both tools of US-EU imperialism

NATO is the inter-imperialist alliance. Imperialism isn’t war, it’s a stage in capitalism and it results in vast plundering of resources and exploitation of labor in the periphery for the benefit of the imperial core. War is used as one option to maintain imperialism, as are sanctions and the buildup of dependence (such as exporting machinery that requires specific spare parts that only the imperialist country can produce).

The USSR was anti-imperialist, which is why so much of the west was hostile towards it. The USSR was aiding liberation movements around the world, which dramatically hurt the profits of the western ruling classes.

What is “auth left?” Any leftist that supports the use of a socialist state?

What 50 year old disproven theory are you referring to?

NATO was formed as an antirevolutionary inter-imperialist coalition military. The entire purpose of NATO is to protect imperialist countries and kill off any leftists that stand to get in the way of western plunder.

Yep lol

Many former Nazi officials were high ranking members of NATO, including Adolf Heusinger. This makes sense, considering NATO is a military coalition of imperialist countries meant to deter revolution against imperialism and neocolonialism, like SEATO, ANZUS, and CENTO.

If Trump destroyed NATO, this would genuinely be an accidental anti-imperialist move.

Yep, schooling really does put things at a disadvantage, but it’s a practical pursuit nonetheless!

That’s amazing! I believe every communist should take up language learning, as it unlocks entirely new spaces for us to see and viewpoints. I can only speak ~1.3 languages right now, but I’d love to make it to 5 or so eventually!

That looks fun! Mandarin is down the road for my language learning journey for now though.

What is “true power” if not the ability to dictate the direction of society? Should the working classes not be able to direct society, and instead have to slave away under the rule of capital, who very much are okay with using violence?

No worries! It makes it more complicated to start, but it also has its strengths.

It’s only true in that you can interact with other federated instances on any federated account, but not all instances are federated with every instance. I can see Hexbear.net just fine from here, as can I see Lemmygrad.ml, but you will never see them from Lemmy.world accounts.

There’s also the fact that many instances vary in how they run things, what their local sort is like, etc.

The userbase is different, plus you’re on Lemmy.world, which is defederated from active communist instances like Hexbear.net.

Yea I wonder why that seems to be the case.

Turns out it was C, lol. See here

Incredible, but it makes sense that the current anticommunist government would downplay Nazi genocide if stopping it makes the communists look better.

Figures, lmao.