true but imo it assumes commitment against imperialism in a fundamental level which i do not believe putin has at all. he would gladly be yet another collabolator for western imperialism if he could*, but the “russian enemy” archetype is just too useful for the usa to give up
but imo it assumes commitment against imperialism in a fundamental level
In most famous example, Lenin and Stalin considered a literal monarch, emir of Afghanistan and his fight for independence against the British, an antiimperialist and offered him friendship and support of USSR. If even that case was considered antiimperialist by the two guys who literally formulated the theory about imperialism and antiimperialism then Putin’s Russia, currently the foremost force actively resisting the empire on multiple fronts is so much more.
Antiimperialism don’t have to be permanent and it don’t need to come from marxism.
true but imo it assumes commitment against imperialism in a fundamental level which i do not believe putin has at all. he would gladly be yet another collabolator for western imperialism if he could*, but the “russian enemy” archetype is just too useful for the usa to give up
*i think he even tried to join nato afaik
In most famous example, Lenin and Stalin considered a literal monarch, emir of Afghanistan and his fight for independence against the British, an antiimperialist and offered him friendship and support of USSR. If even that case was considered antiimperialist by the two guys who literally formulated the theory about imperialism and antiimperialism then Putin’s Russia, currently the foremost force actively resisting the empire on multiple fronts is so much more.