Reply To: Russian Tensions
“And that is why you are an infantile ideologue. As long as nation states exist the only means of protecting oneself from the predations of other states is to have one of your own. Without it you’re a babe in the woods moments away from being torn to shreds by the wolves.”
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You have to despair at the sheer inanity of this feeble attempt to justify the continuation of capitalism and its core institution, the nation-state. Having agreed with the principle that “The working men have no country” TS continues: ” as long as nation-states exist the only means of protecting oneself from the predations of other states is to have one of your own”. Who is the “your” in your sentence TS???
It cannot be the workers you have in mind if you seriously agree with the socialist claim that “workers have no country”. It is not us you are addressing but one group of capitalists vis a vis another. And that has been clear as daylight all along. You support one capitalist regime vis a vis another and therefore the indefinite continuation of capitalism itself. The very (il)logic of your own argument commits you to indefinitely resisting socialism as an alternative to capitalism, since according to you “As long as nation states exist” you will continue to need to support the nation-state and hence capitalism
In other words a self-fulfilling prophecy!
Instead of sneering at what you characterise as the “infantilism” of the socialist position it is in fact the ONLY mature and logical way out of the impasse of endless capitalist warmongering that your position commits you to