west west bad big bad very bad stalin good lenin good ignore starvation ignore deaths ignore everything just read state and revolution bro

    • freagle@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Well, let’s see. Western imperialism is an unbroken phenomenon of the last 600 years that, at its height, dominated 80% of the world’s population and today kills about 800k people in the developing world through trade sanctions alone. Since the fall of the USSR, the USA has made serious attacks on 14 countries, not including Venezuela and Cuba. Russia has attacked 3. China has attacked 0. China hasn’t dropped a bomb in conflict or fired upon an ocean vessel in almost 40 years.

      So, sure. All imperialism is bad. But Western imperialism is the imperialism that needs to be resisted because it actually exists.