Anti-imperialism does not mean "anti-empire". Imperialism is a system and the belief among libs that we're talking about empires when we say anti-imperialism is caused by their complete and total lack of understanding of any leftist theory.

Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, when the financial class form international groups together and they merge together with the state to steer the entire resources of those states towards the pursuit of more capital for themselves, as a class.

The imperialists in the world are the west, with the US at its head. Anti-imperialism means that.

There is no other imperialism in the world. Could Russia emerge as the new leader of imperialism if the existing imperialist leader collapses (the US), yes it could, and it would be the most likely one to become it. But is it imperialist right now? No. It is a capitalist state with a national bourgeoisie pursuing their interests, not yet imperialist without a massive realignment of the international bourgeoisie.

Dear Blahaj user hungryphrog, please read theory if you want to understand us when we say we're "anti-imperialist", particularly Lenin's "Imperialism, the highest stage of Capitalism". You have misunderstood what that phrase means when we use it.

Lenin provides a careful, 5-point definition of imperialism:

"(1) the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this "finance capital", of a financial oligarchy; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance; (4) the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and (5) the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed."

I suspect they will never read this due to de-federation, but I had to say it anyway.

Blahaj deserves our eternal hatred for how they treated our trans users while claiming to be a trans-positive instance.

Edit: lmao

There really aren’t any good parts to liberalism. If you’re a liberal and the current year starts with a 2, you’re a monster. Like full on, need to be forcefully reducated kinda monster.

Not being arrested for publicly disagreeing with the government is a good thing.

Anyone who's paid attention to the ongoing actions to criminalize support for Palestine knows how absurd this is. Those who don't move don't notice their chains.

https://lemmy.ml/post/22637211/15056851

They are still using wikipedia as their proof of genocide against the Uyghurs. Libs are deeply unserious people.

Sometimes when I see big threads of ostensibly left wing people railing against tankies, I have a brief moment where I ask myself "did I get sucked into an online cult? Are we (tankies) the baddies?" Then I see takes like this:

and this

and I realize I'm not that bad after all.

Drag noticed something after the election: All the non voters say it’s not their fault, because Kamala is more to blame. They think blame is a limited resource. They think you can only blame either the DNC OR the voters, not both.

It’s the same as with China. They think if America is bad, then China has to be good. If there’s evidence of China being bad, the counterevidence is that America is worse.

Tankies think only one thing can be bad at a time. It’s the same with genocide, too. We can’t care about Ukraine and trans people and West Bank, because WhAt AbOuT gAzA.

The tankie mind only has room for one single bad thing in each subject. Only one bad genocide. Only one bad empire. Only one bad politician. They can’t conceive of two things being bad at the same time. It does not compute. When they say they understand two things being bad, they’re lying. They can only understand it in short term memory. They can’t internalise it and apply it to long term memory. Fifteen seconds after they admit two things can be bad, they forget it. It’s like clockwork. “America and China are both bad… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15… China can’t be bad because America is bad! I’m not to blame for Trump’s win because Kamala ran a weak campaign! Gaza is the only genocide that matters!”

I wish I had nothing better to do than to sit around all day and get angry over shit I made up.

> I am aware of the terrorists sitting back while Real China 🇹🇼 tried protecting the people from the Japanese then not having the strength afterwards

Real principled anti-imperialism from the white terror enjoyers over there. Take a look tankies, this is what being actually left wing is.

Don't you know empires just spontaneously arise with no structural cause? Just a completely stochastic process that we have no way of understanding!

Sometimes I have faith in the west, but then I am reminded of how many people here explicitly and openly support western imperialism because they are scared of Russia or China doing to them what the West does to the rest of the world. And none of this is subtextual or implied, everyone just says it out loud. They know it's imperialism and they love it.

It's gotta be so wild to feel like your opinion is worth sharing on topics that you've never read books about or studied in depth in any way. Just some kind of ignorant mental bliss I'd imagine.

Empire is when group > 10

It's really weird to watch 196-adjacent spaces just completely ignore their own allies throwing trans people under the bus after this election.

But yeah, now is the time to double-down on the real threat: "tankies".

What other Empire?

...But I'm supposed to believe these crackers have left potential, tuh!

Anti imperialism is supporting small countries, the ultimate goal of anti imperialists is to split big countries and have international law forbid population above 1% of the world's

The worst thing these genocide supporters can imagine we are is a mirror version of them. They're desperate for our anti-imperialist positions to be as thoughtless, vibes-based and obviously hollow as their imperialist ones.