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

submitted 6 days 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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[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Ever heard of the concept of labor aristocracy? Western workers are getting paid like 11x as much as nonwestern ones. Its in their class interest to keep western hegemony. They are our enemies.

The global working class is outside the usa empire, not inside. "Workers of the world unite" is pretty much exactly the same as "Nonwestern people unite"

[–] Lilybump@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Replacing class struggle with national struggle is not going to better our movement. Western workers are still exploited and as proletarians (which is defined by their relations to the means of production, not their income level), their class interests remains in socialism.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, while in practice there is.

It seems as though you’re taking communism 101 theory and insisting that it be followed universally and by the book, regardless of history and material conditions on the ground, as if no further investigation were needed. Maoists wouldn’t be Maoists if they took Mao’s Oppose Book Worship seriously.

People have suggested to you several works on anti-imperialism from a Marxist perspective. Another important one, especially for those who live in a settler-colonial state within the imperial core, is Settlers.

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