• volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Tell me you don’t understand colonialism and imperialism without telling me you don’t understand colonialism and imperialism.

    You haven’t read a single thing about unequal exchange, or colonialism, or imperialism. The western countries (imperial core) RELY on cheap raw materials and cheap labour from third countries (colonial periphery) to be able to attain the levels of wealth and development that they enjoy. The USSR simply didn’t participate in this, and you saying otherwise proves you know jackshit about this topics or about history.

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      5 months ago

      HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH

      deep breath

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      Edit: just for future reference (because people who argue this shit aren’t worth giving the benefit of a serious debate), I don’t doubt one bit that the US benefits greatly from barbaric imperialist polices around the world both then and now. I take great issue with the idea that the USSR somehow got to space without its own barbaric imperialist policies. Just ask Poland, Finland, or Ukraine. Or any of the numerous peoples who had been forced to live under the previous Czarist regime, and whom the Bolsheviks did fuck all to help. Or Hungry or Czech, which played host to the incidents that invented the term “Tankie”. Marxist–Leninism is a shitty drug.