west west bad big bad very bad stalin good lenin good ignore starvation ignore deaths ignore everything just read state and revolution bro
west west bad big bad very bad stalin good lenin good ignore starvation ignore deaths ignore everything just read state and revolution bro
Why is it only western imperialism that is bad, though? I hate to indulge in whataboutism, but it’s frankly naive and highly revisionist to believe that imperialism is all of the west and only in the west.
Western imperialism is the dominant geopolitical phenomenon of the last 600 years. At its height it dominated 80% of the world’s population. Today it still controls the majority of the world’s wealth. Every country in the world today currently exhibits some pathology that can be traced back to Western imperialism, and for most of them you don’t have to trace back at all because they’re currently subject to that imperialism.
What other imperialism are facing today? China? The country that hasn’t dropped a bomb in conflict or fired upon a vessel in almost 40 years? Russia who has engaged in 3 conflicts, all border conflicts, since 1992, while the US has engaged in several dozen, invading and bombing over a dozen countries in that same time frame?
Maybe you’re worried about Brazilian imperialism? Burkinabe imperialism? Indonesian imperialism? What other imperialism are we dealing with today in the world that would lead you to believe it’s naive and highly revisionist to focus all of our efforts on defeating and repairing from Western imperialism?
My native country suffered from Western imperialism back in the 1500s and still is at the very least “managed” by America today… when we (basically the rest of the world) have to fight the same main villain, that IMO is the result of culture, for over 500y and more even if you’re idk West Asian for example, I don’t really see how you could expect the world to think differently. If we ever have to suffer Chinese or idk Nigerian world control, I’m sure we’ll switch our tone.