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'The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel'
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Yes fighting on the side of the exploited against their exploiter is morally just in all instances. It's easy for you to talk shit from your cushy position in the imperial core. I hope you reflect in the future on the immense privilege you have thanks to the mass immiseration of the global south and do better.
So you're not different from your opposition. For sure you've got the right answer, and your might will prove it.
It's not about me, it's about the principle you're espousing. Also you don't know anything about me, and presuming you do does nothing for your position.
Edit - Are you also asserting China is not or will never be imperialist? How naive can you possibly be?
Incredible for the "fighting back against fascism is evil" guy to be calling anyone else naive
Your assertions here are that using violence against fascists is bad purely because we cannot know whether fascism is correct or anti-fascism is. As for China being imperialist or not, your argument is that by opposing fascism they will inevitably become imperialist.
These are logical absurdities based in idealism.
What part of fighting on the side of the exploited against their exploiters is always just did you not get?
Might doesn't prove anything. Violence is unfortunately the only language that colonialist and imperialists understand as has already been proven by history.
In your mind was it wrong to use violence on the Nazis? You seem awfully pro status quo which is built on the rape, murder pillaging and mass exploitation of Billions for the comfort of a few millions and the mass excesses of a few thousand.
There's nothing wrong with fighting to protect people it's the part where you decide you and your friends get to decide who is right and who is wrong.
As I said before, you don't know anything about me, so don't presume that you do so that you can justify your righteous indignationand buttress poorly formed beliefs. My family has a long history of military involvement, my grandfather fought from Normandy to Germany and suffered greatly for it. Two of his brothers fought and one didn't come back. My maternal grandmother was Osterbeiter and met my maternal grandfather in a German work camp. All of my family hated Nazis with a passion their entire lives, and half of them also hated Soviets. Don't talk to me like I don't understand fighting for what you believe, and don't tell me I don't understand suffering.
Military excursions in the name of ideology, particularly when they are done by a superpower, very quickly become imperialism. Thinking China is immune to that is immensely naive.
More vibes based analysis from one so wise. Fighting the Nazis was good but fighting the order set up by the imperial power the Nazis modelled themselves after is bad. You are a privileged liberal who only cares about what directly affects you and don't care about the rest of us. The global south is being exploited on a scale that would give Hitler wet dreams and your response to people supporting them fighting back is "you're just as bad as the exploiters if you fight back". It's infantile and plainly ridiculous. Grow up. Do some reading, go visit the global south and talk to people and witness the exploitation you are inherently ok with as you condemn resistance.
Long history of imperial conquest but also fought the Nazis so all the rest of it is ok.
You clearly don't know what this word means.
We don't decide anything. It has already been decided when they supported genocide imperialism and colonialism. No one forced them to.
Connect this. How is a country materially supporting anti-fascism and anti-imperialism a road to imperialism? Tie it directly to Marxism-Leninism in particular. Focusing on vague generalities while ignoring specifics that are inconvenient to your argument is poor logic.
Why? Connect the argument, address the claims directly.
Why do you suppose Marxist-Leninist ideology somehow immunizes a nation against imperialist desires or a general desire to increase ones power, which are both arguably part of human nature and certainly part of the nature of a nation-state?
What is it about any ideology that might make it immune to that?
Any unchecked ideology will eventually try to assert itself unilaterally. As your previous comments have made clear.
Marxism-Leninism is an explicitly anti-colonialist ideology that helped the PRC overturn the century of humiliation, defeat Japanese and US imperialism and feudalists, to win the greatest anti-colonial revolution of the 20th century.
Only if you are entirely ignorant of that history can you claim that "the anti-colonial camp is just as bad as their colonizers".
Fucking human nature bullshit.
God I hate liberals.
Your argument is still idealist, not materialist, and thus relies on supernatural explanation. Appealing to the idea of a universal human spirit that trends towards imperialism and increasing power is a supernatural explanation for why imperialism exists, and why power structures are formed. Same with the idea thay any "unchecked" ideology will "assert itself unilaterally," which itself could be a good thing!
Imperialism is caused by capitalist expansion, capital expands outward and seeks foreign markets to plunder in order to fight the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. This isn't because of "human nature" or any other vague and supernatural explanation, but because of material processes of economics.
If your arguments are restrained to the realm of the supernatural, we can't take them seriously.