Reply To: Russian Tensions
“Thought I’d look the World Anti-Imperialist Platform up. They seem to be a bunch of “Marxist-Leninists” as the Maoists now call themselves.”
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These people are as bad as the left-wing supporters of the “Ukrainian national liberation struggle against Russian imperialism”. It is deliciously ironic that they both base their ideas and language on the same discredited and absurdly narrow Leninist definition of imperialism. They both end up supporting one capitalist regime against the other – a clear demonstration of the fact that they have no intention of ever thinking of transcending capitalism itself. In other words, both sides are pro-capitalist and therefore against the interest of the working class.
This bunch of pro-capitalists explicitly attacks the socialist position that workers have no interest in taking sides in this capitalist war:
“We further believe it to be of prime importance that workers should push back against and expose the lie that they have ‘no side’ in this war, since it is between ‘two imperialist groupings’ that are both enemies of the working and oppressed masses. ”
I have yet to hear an even remotely plausible reason as to why it would benefit Russian workers (or Ukrainian workers for that matter) to heed the call of the capitalist regime they live under and fight for the so-called “national interests”
of this capitalist state. Where is the advantage to workers to risk losing their lives, becoming seriously maimed, or having their homes destroyed all for the sake of a piece of tacky cloth called a flag? It’s dumb beyond comprehension