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Why PSL’s Brian Becker is wrong to oppose multipolarity: it’s an essential step in ending the USA’s global reign of terror (open.substack.com)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who said that Russia is communist? Why does Russia need to be communist for it to be engaged in actions that are objectively anti-imperialist?

[+] [email protected] -11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the only two possible positions are Nato or Russia

And one favors Russia

Therefore that Russia > Nato

And if the assertion is that Russia beating Nato would mean more communism

And if the options are, again, communism or not communism,

Then, by dualist logic, Nato = not communism and Russia = communism.

Because everything can either be one or the other, using the same logic behind "Nato bad, therefore Russia good."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russia IS better than NATO. That does not make Russia good. But what they are doing is. You seem unable to distinguish between an action and the entity taking said action.

"The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism;"

J. Stalin, The Foundations of Leninism, 1924

Was this passage saying that a monarchist regime is good? No. It was saying that the actions taken by said regime in combatting imperialism were objectively beneficial for the global struggle.