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submitted 3 days ago by individual@toast.ooo to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

What's up with this straight up pro-china and pro-russia stuff on Lemmy lately?

It's not even praising the people of China and Russia, but rather their gov directly.

Obviously the states have problems, and the EU to a lesser degree, but they at least have some human rights.

Is this some kind of organized disinformation campaign?

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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I didn't make up any definition of imperialism. John A. Hobson was the most significant theorist on imperialism pre-Lenin and Lenin's work Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. This is the most relevant definition of imperialism over the last century, and accurately explains the world position today where wealthy elites in the global north offshore production and utilize state power like the millitary, sanctions, and coups to keep a class of compradors in power in the global south. It's super-exploitation for super-profits.

What would be more legitimate is me saying that you have created your own definition. Everyone else that has mentioned imperialism thus far has been following somewhere around what I've described, yet you seem to be dramatically unclear, and moreover erasing this process of wealth expropriation so as to minimize the crimes of the west.

As for Russia destroying language and cultures, no, that's silly. The USSR had no colonies, and neither does the Russian Federation. It would have to be Tsarist Russia to make any sense.

this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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