Imperialism: a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

This is any state ever. Diplomacy or force are literally the only tools by which they can see to their interests. Seriously diplomacy? That’s imperialism? Are you insane?

Is this communism@lemmy or neoliberal Wikipedia readers @lemmy? Colonialism is a prerequisite of imperialism. The aztecs weren’t great, but they definitely weren’t imperialist.

Still not Imperialism

imperialistic native Americans

Lol gtfo of here. You can’t just slap the term imperialism on anything you want.

Maybe do anything at all about climate change, and you know, wage slavery. Disgusting old fucks think we’re gonna condemn more slaves for them.

Crackers try not to behave like rabid animals challenge: impossible edition.

my political ideology is whatever this is

So nazi then? Thanks for taking the mask off I guess. Now look at that wall.

ignorant masses

Gotta be one of the biggest red flags I’ve seen in awhile.

Every country is a little authoritarian, and in equal measure fascist. The authority that enforces the hierarchy is the spiritual ignorance that gives rise to all of the social evils of this world.

This is pure idealistic nonsense.

Your personal feelings about the word are totally irrelevant.

Did you bother to read On Authority? It’s not my personal feelings, but rather actual Marxist political philosophy. It’s bizarre for you to dismiss it as irrelevant while simultaneously insisting that your own bizarre word salad is fact.

I’m telling you that authoritarianism is a useless word. It’s used as a pejorative against any government that the wielder doesn’t like, and it misses all the actual problems of the regime being criticized. Authority is not by itself a bad thing, you have to look at how and why it is wielded. Is the problem with fascism that there is an authority? Or is it all the fascism?

Seriously you could argue that any country that has ever existed is authoritarian, the proper functioning of a state requires concentration of authority. It’s incredibly silly to just throw the term at whatever you don’t like. Don’t conflate authority with whatever actual problems a political ideology might have. You just end up whitewashing them.

Leveling accusations of authoritarianism here is kind of missing the point. As if the problem with their ideology is anything besides the fascism. It’s needless obfuscation and a liberal view of authority besides.

Could I ask you to take a read of On Authority? It is very brief and quick reading, like 5 minutes tops.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1872/10/authority.htm

Hence it is absurd to speak of the principle of authority as being absolutely evil, and of the principle of autonomy as being absolutely good. Authority and autonomy are relative things whose spheres vary with the various phases of the development of society.

Give even a tiny smidgen of power to a petty loser and watch the world’s smallest tyrant be born.

It’s where they all came from so no surprise.

Israeli settlers should return to the country that they or their family came from originally. This is not like settlers in the America’s where we are talking 200+ years of families living there. This started after WW2 when the bigoted west could not bear to live with jews even after the holocaust, so they had to send them off on a settler project to other lands. Palestinian lands. Israelis should go back home, and the places they came from should pay for the reestablishing of their families. As well as paying reparations to Palestine. Isreal is not a legitimate nation. It is a colonial project occupying the nation of Palestine and the settlers must leave if there is to be peace.

At this point in time that conflict has been going on for so long, I have no clue anymore who started it.

You know very well who started it. You just want to pretend that historical facts are lost to the sands of time because they’re damaging to your centrist bullshit.

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-184195/

Americans and being moronic racists, name a more iconic duo.

Bet they play exclusively nazi Germany

Me playing a small violin very emotionally at the thought that a media mogul won’t be able to afford his 750th super yacht because of piracy 😢

our site

You’ve been here 3 days.

What do KKKlanadians even do with their time?

Here are just a few small selections.

1. Unlimited genocide on the Native peoples of the land. (Everyone)
2. Recreational blackface. (Politicians)
3. Beating people up for buying “gay” beer. (Citizens)
4. Doing false flag bombings on behalf of oil companies. (Police)

As you can see there’s plenty of fun activities to do here.

I like the sound of “the slaying of 350,000,000” more. Death to America.