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2) What are the political consequences of such a characterization? If
the U.S. is imperialist (on which surely everyone here agrees) and
China and Russia are "sub-imperialist" (i.e. qualitatively less
imperialist), should one side with China/Russia against the U.S.? As
we all know numerous Stalinists and Bolivarians arrive to such
conclusions.
What about siding with workers, peasants, women, environmentalists,
youth and all others who toil against the depradations of elites
everywhere - including here in Africa where they often get material
support from Western imperialism and from Chinese and Russian
subimperialism alike.
"Siding with workers" is too abstract. The working class is certainly
what everybody in this list is siding with. Nevertheless there are real
world situations which one must analyses precisely in order to side with
the workers. And different analyses imply contradicting ways to do so.
"Siding with the workers" just evades the question
JA
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