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On Sunday, January 12, 2025, Michael Karadjis via groups.io <mkaradjis=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Sartesian: "A Marxist analysis begins with the examination of the social
> condition of labor that is the basis for a mode of production.  Now does
> anyone argue that the mode in Ukraine differs from that of Russia"
>
> No, quite right, it isn't. So, in that sense, let's say the parallel I was
> making to Cuba and the missile crisis etc was not entirely accurate.
> However, I also made a comparison to a hypothetical case of France trying
> to reinvade Algeria and annex part of its coastline. And I think that's
> where we disagree. For you, the "proxyists" and "self-determinationists"
> and everyone else are equally non-Marxist because they are not discussing
> differences in the mode of production. In one respect I can say that I
> disagree, but can respect the consistency of your approach. The problem I
> have though is, how consistent is it? In theory, it abolishes the right of
> self-determination in every case where both sides are capitalist. But I
> doubt that is your absolute opinion. What would you say about my Algeria
> hypothetical? In 2003, was the mode of production different in the US and
> Iraq? And so on.
>
> It may be that you have reasons to see the Ukraine case as different to
> those two cases. That is fine, and I'm happy to hear the argument. But what
> it means is that the absolutism of your statement does not apply in all
> cases.
>
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM sartesian via groups.io <sartesian=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Well, I'll jump in for a chance at a share of abuse.  A Marxist analysis
>> begins with the examination of the social condition of labor that is the
>> basis for a mode of production.  Now does anyone argue that the mode in
>> Ukraine differs from that of Russia? That Russia's mode is substantively
>> different from that of the US?  The argument among the
>> self-determination-ists, proxy=ists, geopolitical=ists, bi, or
>> multi-polar-ists, anti-imperial hegemon-ists dispense with this core to
>> Marxism.
>>
>> 
>
>


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