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Marxist-Leninist ☭

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  • Centrism, as in what? The center of the Statesian political parties? Then yes, considering both parties are right-wing. The center of two arbitrary points? Depends on the points. “Centrism” is inherently an irrational way to describe political views, being in the center of two points adds no value. If someone says we should kill everyone with glasses, and someone else says we shouldn’t, we shouldn’t kill half of the people with glasses. What centrism does in practice is give people cover to obfuscate their actual views, it isn’t a position by itself.


  • Russia has no colonies nor neocolonies, and doesn’t run their economy based on export of capital and plundering the surplus value of the global south, like the US and EU do.

    Imperialism is characterized by the following:

    -The presence of monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.

    -The merging of bank capital with industrial capital into finance capital controlled by a financial oligarchy.

    -The export of capital as distinguished from the simple export of commodities.

    -The formation of international monopolist capitalist associations (cartels) and multinational corporations.

    -The domination and exploitation of other countries by militaristic imperialist powers, now through neocolonialism.

    -The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers.

    The global north, the US and Europe included, uses this export of capital to super-exploit foreign labor for super-profits. It also engages in unequal exchange, where the global south is prevented from moving up the value chain in production, allowing the global north to charge monopoly prices for commodities produced in the same labor hours. Russia does not do this, it has a paltry sum of the world’s finance capital, and this is proven by just how low their nominal GDP is compared to it’s GDP adjusted to PPP.



  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlLiberal Double Standards
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    Supporting the liberation of Donetsk and Luhansk from the Banderite government they have been trying to secede from for a decade is a good thing, and that’s why the CPRF supports the Russian nationalists in the war. Had the west not supported a far-right coup back in 2014, it’s likely the war never would have happened.