Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism - V.I. Lenin
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We Can't Just Focus on Building Socialism in the Imperial Corp
We can't simply focus on the project of building socialism in the imperialist corps, because imperialism divides the working class. We really need an independent left that centers anti-imperialism as a part of our critique of capitalism. The labor aristocracy may well see reduced harm from collaborating with imperialists, but for the global working class, there's often no reduction in harm at all. So it's a certain extent to which that harm reduction only matters for certain people. And we need to work on politicizing and radicl ising the most marginalized workers,. the ones for whom this strategy doesn't even work in the first place.
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