Russia is not economically dominating other countries, though, and neither is BRICS. Secondly, focusing on export of capital as the dominant measure of an imperialist economy does not mean a country can only export either capital or commodities. Further, earlier forms of imperialism existed, such as the Roman Empire, what I described is merely imperialism as it exists today.

When you are talking about “forms of control,” what you’re really describing is imperialism proper, the economic extraction, and then ways imperialism is maintained through soft and hard power. Russia is not economically plundering other countries. It is at war, but it is not an imperialist country.

This isn’t me being disingenuous, it’s me being principled in how I analyze the world.

No?

Don’t really see how that matters.

Seems to mostly be jank doing it for the rage bait, pre-jank it was definitely more pro-communist but less rage bait focused. Not necessarily a bad thing, but not how I would do it either.

The problem is that the entire world is already divided up between the imperialist powers. Rising capitalist powers cannot simply take their imperialist share, because there’s nowhere to gobble up. This causes conflict between imperialist powers, like the schism rising between the US as the world’s imperial hegemon and core imperialist countries like the UK, France, and Germany. The important bit is that Russia is playing a progressive role against imperialism.

The definition of imperialism is not arbitrary, it describes a system that results in immense plunder and underdevelopment of the global south. The west has its riches off the backs of the global south, to this day. Russia does not. If Russia was to join NATO, join the EU, transition to a more imperialist economy, etc then it would go from playing a progressive role against imperialism to playing an actively imperialist role.

Imperialism is not arbitrary. It’s the largest global obstacle to human progress, and the advance of socialism.

Fair enough!

You can use genderless terms like sycophant.

That isn’t a lie though, since 2014 Ukraine has been governed by Banderites that uphold Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera.

Trade is not imperialism, I quite literally explained how the export of capital as opposed to commodities as a means to enrich the imperialist countries at the expense of others is imperialism. BRICS is about cooperative trade agreements.

As for expansion, no, it isn’t inherently imperialism, nor is war. The Statesian North absorbing the confederacy would be imperialism by your vague definition.

Using fangirl on someone of unspecified gender is clearly gendering the behavior attempted to be called out. One could just as easily call someone a sycophant without resorting to needlessly gendered terms.

What lies are being repeated? It’s definitely pro-Russian, but what is the lie?

And the term itself relies on misogyny. Just because a word can be used in a certain fashion does not mean it should be.

Girl is one of the most gendered terms, and calling someone who’s gender is unclear or otherwise not explicitly feminine a “fangirl” draws on misogynistic perceptions.

Either way, I don’t think it’s unknown that OP is pro-Russian, but I don’t see how that translates to being pro-war.

Ukraine is run by Banderites that openly celebrate Nazi collaborators, so the meme is pretty apt.

No? Girl is a clearly gendered term. I also don’t see how this is a “pro-war” meme.

What about this is inaccurate?

Communists recognize that nationalization by a capitalist state is not a furthering of the aims of socialism, but instead is largely done to entrench and manage capitalism. This is why the working classes need to smash and replace the state with a working class state. When you analyze with a class outlook, it becomes easier to see why this isn’t necessarily a progressive move and why communists aren’t fans of it.

The 800 figure is provided by a single reference, I’ve given more sources pointing to the real number being ~500 total. As for the rate of billionaires, I of course have referenced this being a per capita number, ie since the US has double the billionaires and a quarter of the people, it has an absurdly high number of billionaires, with a much higher average wealth among them and a much larger portion of wealth concentration. Your ableism and ageism is certainly a pivot from your earlier racism, but none of them form a point.

Further, nationalism is not socialism itself. Nationalism in the context of a socialist economy represents an advancement in socialization, but in the context of a capitalist economy entrenches the capitalist class. This is because of the difference between the class nature of the state among both societies.

You also have not answered my point: what class is the ruling class of China, and what do you believe socialism is?

Where do you see jankforlife’s pronouns?

No? My point has never once been that everything the DSA does is a bad thing. The DSA’s reformist strategy is a problem, and the org itself lacks discipline due to rejecting democratic centralism.