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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - V.I. Lenin

Red Menace

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Imperialism and the Left Winged Democracy in the Global South

The way that we see supposedly left winged politicians respond to imperialism really reflects why it's important to be imperialist and anti capitalist. The simple fact of the matter is that states in the global south developing socialist projects threaten capitalism. So when these left winged democrats critique the us Imperialist project in venezuela, they have to kind of hedge their bets a little bit and say, well, we don't like the intervention. But also, those people whod threaten capital ism are also bad. And so we can best understand the reason that a lot of social democratic politicians who are supposedly on our side end up betraying the people of the local south. It's because they want

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