Had a heated argument with a tankie who glorified stalin and lenin. So fucking tired. The worst thing he’s a discord mod of a good streamer, and i left the server because i can’t be there anymore. Context: i’m russian whose grand-grandparents were repressed and forcibly relocated. Left Russia several years ago because i didn’t want to support the aggressive war in Ukraine. And his american (no offense to amreicans tho) ass tried to explain me that stalin is an actual hero who singlehandedly saved Europe from fascism, and all repressed were rich “bourgeois land owners” (actually, no. but even if yes, that’s a terrorism). Then he and other user started posting stupid tankie memes. Ofc they ignored my questions how LGBT+, religious groups and small nations were treated and deleted the message. I’m sick of that shit. Needed to vent somewhere.
You don’t understand it’s only imperialism if it comes from the imperial region of the evil American empire.
Otherwise it’s just a sparkling annexation.
Can you define imperialism?
A group dominating another area than what the global community considers to be that group’s, through infiltration, coups, annexation, exploitation, and colonialism.
So, what pretty much every society did that’s not anarchocommunist.
Yes it’s when one country loves another but the other country doesn’t want anything to do with it so they use diplomacy or sometimes place their military into the other country and commit war crimes to try to make the country love them back.
Imperialism is when America. Duh.
Otherwise it’s sparkling Read More Theory.