• OhWell [he/him]
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 years ago

      A group of 110 billionaires own over 40% of all wealth in Russia.

      But yeah, they're good cause they supposedly are "anti-imperialist" by opposing the US.

      • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
        ·
        edit-2
        4 years ago

        Anti-imperialism should really be called anti-western-imperialism, because anti-imperialist countries can be imperialist themselves (like Crimea in Russia).

        https://hexbear.net/post/66512/comment/683373

        • PigPoopBallsDotJPG [none/use name]
          ·
          edit-2
          4 years ago

          I'm not a fan of using words and definitions in that manner, to be honest. It's the same discussion as the old "black people cannot be racist, because by my definition racism is always institutional" canard. You're throwing people off by using words in a sense that are not generally understood that way.

          That said, fuck western imperialism.

          • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            Yeah I'm going to start calling it anti-western-imperialism now. Definitions are a fuck and cause way more issues than we think they do.

            • comi [he/him]
              ·
              4 years ago

              More like opposing imperialism tbh

      • ap1 [any,undecided]
        ·
        4 years ago

        yeh you do one good thing and are absolved of all bad thing

      • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Anti-imperialist countries are often important to the survival to the survival of socialist countries, because they are willing to trade with them. For example: Iran trading with Venezuela. Anti-imperialism should really be called anti-western-imperialism, because anti-imperialist countries can be imperialist themselves (like Crimea in Russia). Anti-imperialist countries are not "good" countries, they are simply the strange bedfellows that ML states find themselves with because the Warsaw pact collapsed.