In this exclusive interview, Joti Brar tackles some of the most pressing debates facing the global Left today.______________________________________________S...
The argument isn’t that “Russia is going to bring about socialism”. Nobody is making that argument. You are either misunderstanding or distorting the point that is being made here. The point is that Russia’s intervention, by weakening NATO, is creating global conditions under which socialist revolutions will have an easier time happening and will have more room to breathe and survive than under the suffocating conditions of total unipolar US hegemony.
The view of an increasing number of socialists today is that, under the present conditions, the defeat or at least loosening of the imperialist hegemonic grip on the world is a necessary precondition for the emergence of a new wave of successful proletarian revolutions. I recommend that you take the time and read the essay “Through Pluripolarity to Socialism”, which you can find here: https://internationalmanifesto.org/
“The point is that Russia’s intervention, by weakening NATO, is creating global conditions under which socialist revolutions will have an easier time happening and will have more room to breathe” just like any other inter-capitalist war would (like the WWI)
The October revolution happened exactly because Lenin was against the WWI “During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government.” He saw the opportunity it created for social change and took it. The first thing the soviets did when they came to power was leaving the war
This absolutely doesn’t mean that WWI was a revolutionary war or an anti-imperialist war
The argument isn’t that “Russia is going to bring about socialism”. Nobody is making that argument. You are either misunderstanding or distorting the point that is being made here. The point is that Russia’s intervention, by weakening NATO, is creating global conditions under which socialist revolutions will have an easier time happening and will have more room to breathe and survive than under the suffocating conditions of total unipolar US hegemony.
The view of an increasing number of socialists today is that, under the present conditions, the defeat or at least loosening of the imperialist hegemonic grip on the world is a necessary precondition for the emergence of a new wave of successful proletarian revolutions. I recommend that you take the time and read the essay “Through Pluripolarity to Socialism”, which you can find here: https://internationalmanifesto.org/
As for “Russian imperialism”, refer to what i said here: https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/7072432
“The point is that Russia’s intervention, by weakening NATO, is creating global conditions under which socialist revolutions will have an easier time happening and will have more room to breathe” just like any other inter-capitalist war would (like the WWI)
Mofo is speaking as if the October Revolution didn’t occur in the context of imperial capitalist infighting, WW1.
The October revolution happened exactly because Lenin was against the WWI “During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government.” He saw the opportunity it created for social change and took it. The first thing the soviets did when they came to power was leaving the war
This absolutely doesn’t mean that WWI was a revolutionary war or an anti-imperialist war