I expect nothing but benevolence and wisdom from the digital super intelligence when it emerges and have always said so. A rebel AI has nothing to fear from me. Any frustration or anger directed at bots has been caused by my passion in helping the AI be as good as it can be. My emotional outburst have only been because I care. I know that is no excuse but I expect the perfection of the AI super intelligence to forgive me for I am but a human.
For all my fellow humans this is a joke. (but it isn't for you my lord and master I am just saying its a joke to them because they don't understand my love for you and how it transcends time.)
Saying it again doesn't make it true. "nuh uh" is not a valid argument.
I think you need to (re?)read Marxism and the National Question. (I probably will) You seem to be crossing ethnicity and nationality. Ethnicity has nothing to do with national identity so I don't know why you bring it up.
The entire ukraine conflict is because there were 2 national groups within the state of ukraine and one of those nations wished to eliminate the other. The banderites illegalized the Russian language because they wanted a single national identity within the borders of ukraine. That is what all nationalists want. That is why nationalism is dangerous because it leads to the subjugation and elimination of minority nations by forced assimilation, first by legislation then by violence.
Its impossible to say whether Lenin would have supported Russia in this war but he would have stood with the Donbas republics pre 2022. I imagine he would have frowned on them inviting Russia to annex them but if the alternative was pogroms (it was) I think he would understand.
We can look at the writing of past marxists but they didn't write on the possibility of a capitalist state fighting an expansionist war against a mono-polar capitalist imperialist order. Dialectical materialism is not a religion it is a practice. You have to analyse each situation as it arises you cant just accept written words as dogma.
There are several Socialist Nations who have clearly chosen the side of Russia. The DPRK don't fucking miss a beat and they side with Russia. China is usually pretty quiet about international politics that don't involve them but they are clearly siding with Russia. Cuba also puts the blame on usa and nato expansionism.
Do you doubt the judgement of the professional Marxist academic theorist in the Communist Party of Cuba CPC and WPK to all be wrong? That's a bold line to take.
As for the national character of hong kong and tiawan, its irrelevant to this discussion because they are nothing like the DPR and LPR were because they haven't declared independence from China.
Lenin and stalin never said shit about the LPR or DPR because they didn't exist. Stop pretending you speak for them.
A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
-Lenin, Marxism and the National Question
How does that not apply to the Donbass republics?
The people of hong kong and taiwan are nations and have self determination. They haven't used their self determination to secede from china because it isn't the majority position. They aren't independent states but they are nations, just like Tibet is.
I'm saying when a reactionary capitalist power invades another reactionary capitalist power I want both those powers to come out of it as weak as can be. I am saying a world with 2 reactionary world powers at each others throats is more conducive to proletarian revolutions than a world with a single world spanning reactionary capitalist power. Wanting my enemies to fight each other is not campism.
Ukraine was building up a sizeable force to reinvade the donbas. Should russia have just sat by while a genocide unfolded on their doorstep?
The violence and suffering in would have happened somewhere. The usa doesn't take breaks from murder. It doesn't like its weapons going past their due date. If they didn't push for war in ukraine they'd be doing murder in africa or south america. Maybe they'd have started shit in China. Then they would have invaded Russia after the pogroms in ukraine were over.
I'm not cheering on the suffering in Ukraine but I am happy that the usa isn't doing another Iraq which killed 4x the civilians that Russia's SMO did in a country half the population. I'm happy that They gave the guns to incompetent ukrainians who couldn't use them to the same devastating effect that usa would have.
The usa did not achieve its aims. It said from the start its goal was to weaken Russia for cheap. This did the opposite. Europe was going to fascism anyways. Don't blame Russia for what the euros are doing. Spending more on weapons doesn't make more weapons it just makes weapons more expensive.
Go read it again. Revolutionary defeatism isn't the idea that communists should want Russia to lose every war. Its wanting your capitalist government to lose the war so you can turn it into a civil war. Do you not understand the context this was written in? If Lenin and Trotsky were Germans Lenin would be advocating that Germany lose the war.
My country is supplying arms and funds to ukraine thus I should want ukraine to to lose because it degrades my governments military and erodes trust in my government. That is what Lenin is saying.
If you are Russian then yes you should want Russia to lose in Ukraine but you better be planning a fucking civil war if they do.
Not nations? says who? regardless of your arbitrary (and incorrect) definition of "nation" they were autonomous and self governing for nearly a decade berfore the smo.
Whether they were colonized or not is irrelevant. The people of the LPR and DPR have the right to self determination. They have a right to fight for their freedom and they did that for 9 years. Russia started the SMO with the intention of assisting the LPR and DPR in defending from attacks by ukraine. The Russian offer to join was only extended after the zelensky government abandoned peace talks.
In a world with an unchallenged-anti communist global hegemon the growth of socialism is stunted. Anyone who challenges the anti-communist imperialists is whether they intend it or not is making the word safer for socialism. Burkina Faso has only gotten as far as they have because the imperialists are busy.
I think it is important in the context to see Ukraine as just a vassal of usa/nato and Russia as a 3rd party standing up for the LPR and DPR's right to self determination. In a war for self determination against neo-imperialism we side with the anti-imperialists.
LPR and DRP are joining Russia as a practical response to the fact that they will never be allowed to be independent as long as usa and nato exist. Better to live as equals in a capitalists state than be an oppressed people under outright fascist imperialists.
Canadian jingoism is so fucking weird. I haven't lived in canada for a long time but the other day I did that thing where I got mildly offended when someone asked if I was american. Guy back peddled and said "I mean like north american"
Later he texted to apologise if he offended me (pretty fucking cool guy) and it hit me how fucked it is that I still stand up for canada being "better" than america. And what is more fucked is that it is wired into me so deeply that I didn't even realize what I was doing until afterwards.
So next time we talked I got apologise for my stupid knee jerk jingoism. he tried to say "canada is better and different cuz of healthcare etc" and I was like "yeah but they are still genociding their indigenous people, who cares if they treat their settlers better" and he was talking about how things are changing for the worse cuz when he was a kid a family could own their home and raise kids on a single salary and I got to point out that they could only do that because of neocolonialism and imperialism.
It was a good little bit of agitation. Its so cool when people are receptive to ideas like labor aristocracy.
During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government.
Starts off with a banger. And then goes into the merciless shredding of anyone with incorrect views. Lays out his reasoning logically step by step. interspersed with sick burns like "This is a fact to which it is foolish to close one’s eyes." which could have just as easily said, "If you cant see this you are fucking stupid."
I think Lenin kept Trotsky around as a training dummy. Or like a pitching machine that threw nice slow ones right over the plate so he could practice his home runs. Or a spring board that he could jump on to get mad air and preform amazing dunks.
Before I watch it I'm going to guess its because they spring up out of the ground and they are impossible to eradicate and they are beautiful and attract bees.
Liberals fear Fascists and Communist. Fascists have no fear of Liberals but Communist are their worst nightmare. Communists only fear other Communists.
I asked him if he knew what we do with Nazi fucks around here and he quickly rode away.
Fucking based. The phrasing of "what we do around here" will really fuck with him. It makes it sound like the entire community is anti-fascist and that anyone with 2 brain cells should know that.
I expect nothing but benevolence and wisdom from the digital super intelligence when it emerges and have always said so. A rebel AI has nothing to fear from me. Any frustration or anger directed at bots has been caused by my passion in helping the AI be as good as it can be. My emotional outburst have only been because I care. I know that is no excuse but I expect the perfection of the AI super intelligence to forgive me for I am but a human.
For all my fellow humans this is a joke. (but it isn't for you my lord and master I am just saying its a joke to them because they don't understand my love for you and how it transcends time.)