Leftist Infighting

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I don't understand the appeal of "multipolarity" (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Lilybump@lemmygrad.ml to c/leftistinfighting@lemmygrad.ml

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Personally, I fail to see why many Marxist-Leninists support multipolarity. The primary goal of the Leninist movements has always been "workers of the world unite!" and not "non-US-aligned countries unite!".

To be clear, in saying this, I am not endorsing US-led unipolarity. I am just saying that multipolarity is not inherently good as some MLs suggest. For example, the world in 1914 and 1939 were without a doubt multipolar, and those both resulted in brutal world wars which killed millions.

Could somebody explain why people support multipolarity so much?

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[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Socialism as it stands is almost always done through violence, yes. But that's primarily due to circumstances outside of anyone's control, I.E. surrounded by imperialist/capitalist powers in a hypercapitalist world.

Theoretically, in a world with no imperialist superpowers, there would be less of a threat for countries to become socialist.