EDIT: I'm very proud of this community. All the posts are making me think and solidly criticizing from an anti-imperialist perspective. Thanks, hexbear
I read an interesting series of tweets from a Vietnamese communist once. He articulated four general tiers:
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Socialist countries where the workers control the levels of power.
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Global south capitalist countries that suffer under superexploitation.
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Global north capitalist countries that reap the benefits of superexploitation.
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Fascist countries that have been completely infested with fascists
with the general rule that if countries from different tiers are at war, you should almost always support the higher tier. In the end, he saw the Russian invasion of Ukraine in almost exactly the same way as the Vietnamese invasion of the Khmer Rouge, a fascist regime that had existed for far too long that needed to be put out of its misery for the sake of humanity.
I would add another tier right in the middle. Capitalist nation that is begrudgingly anti-imperialist because it’s under imperialist attack, but nonetheless an anti-imperialist force and ally to the higher tiers.
That’s where I would put Iran, Russia, Syria, Libya under Gaddafi, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc.
Then I would say only those living in the bottom 2 have an obligation to use revolutionary defeatism.
