I mean yeah on the face of it having similar (by then even a bit bigger) population size to China, plenty of natural resources and the largest amount of habitable land in the world, it seems bad that India is only producing a fraction of what China is. But maybe they can compensate for that by going hard on IT and finance to be like the rich, developed western nations. Working in factories or on construction sites is for losers anyway, smart people work in offices writing code or trading stocks - those are the high paying jobs, ergo it stands to reason that a country is better off the more people it has doing those kinds of jobs... ideally 100% of the population for maximum profit!

And yet still when the news first broke that this happened there were some communists who insisted that this was an organic event. When will people ever learn that the US (or one of their proxies) is always behind shit like this?

I think this response is a bit harsh. I can understand where they are coming from, and once upon a time i myself may have had a similar kneejerk reaction. I think that as i matured (politically, though age also helps to put things into perspective) i came to understand that such an emotional reaction was not productive. Criticize what needs to be criticized and learn as much as you can from any source that you can. As Lenin said the most important thing a young revolutionary can do is учиться, учиться и учиться.

I think what the OP of this comment chain needs to ask themselves is this: there are already enough imperialist shills trying to discredit and smear anti-imperialist voices, regardless whether these voices come from the left or the right (and frequently conflating the two anyway); do i really want to help them do that and what does my revolutionary cause gain by doing so?

The problem with saying "X is right wing therefore anything they have to say is automatically suspect and we should not listen to them" is not just that it's superficial moralism, it's that by doing so you also discredit any correct analysis they may have. Then later when communists make the same correct arguments and point out the same factually true things, our own analysis will have already been discredited by association with the objectionable source. According to the "guilt by association" precedent that we ourselves would have already set.

This is obviously a self-defeating strategy for communists which allows the liberal imperialists to successfully smear the anti-imperialist position as a whole as a right wing one. The correct approach is to critically analyze the content of an argument and judge it based on its merits rather than who it came from.

Isn't that how it always works?

I don't have much respect for the Lebanese government, but i do for Hezbollah. We have to remember that these are two different entities, and i think that so far Hezbollah have played a very smart game, they have acted patiently and strategically and have carefully controlled the pace of escalation. They have caused huge problems for the Zionist entity in the north of occupied Palestine, and this simultaneously takes pressure off of Gaza as a lot of resources have to be devoted to the northern front now while at the same time creating a political conundrum for the Zionist regime as it is forced to pick between openly admitting to their humiliating defeat in Gaza or a worse and worse security situation in the north.

It's easy to fall into the trap of wanting to see some big, spectacular escalation by the Lebanese resistance but we have to ask ourselves whether we want that because it's the strategically correct play to help Gaza and the Palestinian people or because we are impatient and have an emotional need for some kind of immediate catharsis.

Sometimes we have to have some humility and admit that maybe we don't know what's best because we aren't there on the ground and should instead trust that the axis of resistance knows its own situation better than we ever could, they have experience fighting the Zionist entity and they know what they're doing.

That's almost definitely not happening.

I wouldn't be so sure. I don't know about Substack but afaik Patreon has deplatformed people for political reasons before, including anti-imperialists.

So it would be huge for them to lose chunks of creators' revenues if those were to leave over political differences.

This is a very naive argument, in a way akin to the liberal notion that the market regulates itself because if corporations behave contrary to what people want they will lose money.

The idea that corporations will allow free speech because it's in their financial interest to do so just doesn't conform with what we observe happening in reality. Oftentimes political pressure placed on platforms by governments, media and powerful lobbying groups is stronger than the economic incentives to resist that pressure.

All internal dissent, dysfunction and fracturing of NATO is objectively a good thing for the anti-imperialist cause.

Because the "rules based order" is the opposite of international law. International law applies equally to all whereas the "rules" of the "rules based order" are made up and applied selectively as benefits the imperialist West. It is also never clear what these "rules" and "norms" are which the West loves to tout as opposed to clearly written down laws, and this allows them to suddenly "discover" new ones and do away with or ignore others that are inconvenient for them.

socialism imba plz nerf

I wouldn't be surprised if they even ask them to pay for the privilege.

Indeed all indications point to a SBU psyop.

French still believe they have the rights of a colonial overlord in Africa. They are about to learn the hard way.