• Cosmoscos ☭@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    why do you oppose lifting sanctions on north korea - which is a nation that is one of the biggest victim of US imperialism?

    Liberals are just imperialists.

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      11 hours ago

      Comply with international law and open up and I’d probably be for lifting them.

      Just like I’m for removing sanctions on Cuba.

      Just like I’m for imposing sanctions on Israel.

      Just like I’m for imposing sanctions on my own imperialist country that’s bombing and invading the rest of the world.

      And let’s point out too that it’s not the US alone who has sanctions on NK like we do on Cuba. The UN Security Council consistently votes against the Cuba sanctions. They don’t on NK sanctions. Russia and China are part of that council too with veto power, but it’s unanimois. So 🤷‍♂️

      What I would be for, actually, is a better way to affect beneficial change and avoid harming civilians. Sanctions themselves disproportionately affect normal civilians through food and medical shortages, etc, while the political elite can avoid them.

      We’re agreed though, liberals, especially neoliberal capitalists, are imperialists. And we’re feeling that imperial boomerang come back around to us finally.

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        2 days ago

        Ok you are alright in this regard

        I however disagree heavily with your assertion on “authoritarianism”, because I am a marxist leninist.

        Every anti “authoritarian” tendency of socialism (moreso sceintific socialism i.e. marxism) is reactionary and idealist in itself.

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          14 hours ago

          So because of your political ideologies you are just going to hand wave aside authoritarianism, neat. What a load of trash.

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            14 hours ago

            We need the a Dictatorship of Proletariat to resist imperialism from outside and counter revolution from inside. In liberal terms that would be called authoritarianism, it could be ugly but its the reality and path we need to take.