I agree with your conclusion very, very much.
This wasn't meant to call anyone out but just genuine curiosity. Some of the sources I get news about China from are definitely not supporting China for any reason other than it's not the US. (Inside China Business is a great channel but he literaly thinks China is being rewarded by God for being the largest Christian nation and America is being punished for abandoning the faith).
I think it's probably less than half. Some of the big names who make their living talking should be thought of skepitcally but as long as they support outcomes we want it doesn't matter too much.
Not sure if what I said makes sense tho
is this a response to me?
i'm a bit confused.
i don't know what the CPC have to do with the question of whether people on the internet should say they like Russia or Ukraine in a war.
yes.
it won't come from any existing socialist state tho, it will come from the contradictions that are emerging in the global order.
i say this because there has been only one time in which an existing socialist state brought about socialism in another country and it was WWII. the rest have been internal.
here are some videos you can watch which take a materialist analysis of the current situation in the context of past wars and revolutions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWrgN33ZOQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiqxGdY5_V4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1RRw6kDNWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C319X8x90mc
you shouldn't.
there are many people who call themselves marxist-leninists on this site who do not subscribe to anything marx or lenin had to say about inter-imperialist conflict.
communists and marxists and leninists always seek peace above all else.
the only war worth fighting is class war and the inter-imperialist rivalry won't benefit the working class.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/feb/08.htm
as a bonus, this speech is particularly prophetic. lenin calls calls out basically the next 100 years of US foreign policy in 1917.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/may/14.htm
the only thing the people who call ourselves marxists leninists should be hoping for is a quick peace, a lasting peace, and a humiliating peace for both sides so that the army mutinies and makes proletarian seizure of state power possible (like happened in russia, angola, mozambique, etc.)
even tho virtue signalling is what most people here support, they have decided to support the russian government who made domestic abuse entirely legal and who criminalize queer identities freely expressing. condemning russia's government is not endorsing ukraine's.
EDIT: this entire site is filled with ultras, third-worldists, and campists whose beliefs amount to little more than "america bad" but framed in whatever quotations of leftist thinkers they need to justify themselves. read for yourself, think for yourself, and above all just get organized instead of treating politics like religious salvation and orthodoxy like so many people do.
How the World Works by Paul Cockshott. you can use the bibliography as a reading list as well.
i believe this guy as far as i can throw him.
he was selling "anti-radiation" pills in japan and says the japanese government are spreading radioactive waste around the country to hide cancer cases from their experiments.
this post should be deleted.
you raise good points but they are already accounted for in CO2 emissions figures.
first, CO2 emissions peaked in the 1970s when the US imported much of its oil and when coal was used as the main fossil fuel. The switch away from coal is where much of the reduction comes from, which is why emissions can fall even tho oil production is high.
second, we don't need to ask the US military what their emissions were. we know how much they purchased in fossil fuels and that's where the estimates come from. the US military produces "51 million metric tons" each year, or about an extra 1% if you assume the numbers from https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/carbon/ don't include it.
so in short, no. it is not assuming we ignore record oil production or the US military. as for exports, the US imports about as much energy as it exports.
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