The USSR rivals the US, Japan and Germany for the most imperialist state in the past 100 years, so no, leftists are not anti-imperialist by default, that’s closer to liberals. Leftists are anti-capitalist by default.
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ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 days agoIsn’t Hexbear a leftist community? Aren’t leftists by default anti-imperialist and the biggest genocides in history and ongoing perpetrated by bloodthirsty empires? I feel like most people affiliated can’t be genocide deniers, come on…
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Then maybe my understanding of “leftism” as a term is wrong. Just a little question, what political party would you consider “liberal”?
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
In the US? None, but the Libertarians probably come closest.
The US is built on imperialism so of course no party is anti-imperialist, being anti-government is as close as you can get.
Within Europe there are some parties that lean more anti-imperialist, generally green and liberal parties, but the traditional major conservative and leftist parties rarely are.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
My other comment about alternative social media attracting extremism still stands
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
They are very far left
Like Authoritative Communism left (once you go past a certain point the left and right look the same)
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I don’t believe that, I believe that the terms stop having meaning when tyranny overpowers ideology.
SomeGuyNamedDave@lemm.ee 6 days ago
You missed a word, your comment doesnt make sense, but I understand what you are saying. Most communities on lemmy are leftist, and by default anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist and anti-genocide. Hexbear is not unique in that. They are often pro russia and pro china, and so by inference they are fine with the invasion of a sovereign nation, and fine with the genocide of the uyghurs.
So, pro genocide. More than one genocide can happen in the world at the same time.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Ehhh, the American administration has singlehandedly wrecked the world for their own gain pretty much since WW2, either directly through the murder of hundreds of thousands or indirectly sponsoring coups and sowing instability overall. I mean, even the invasion of Ukraine happened because of an American coup in Ukraine in 2011 (that, eventually, ended up with the actor in office) and Russia understanding this as the precursor of an American mobilization in Russia. And whilst the Chinese human right abuses are also monstrous and unethical, at least they’re localised? It’s a mishandling of internal affairs, not an external invasion and utter destruction. I’m sorry, but they’re not even comparable. You could say “if China had carte blanche like the US did through military supremacy they would’ve acted the same way” but I doubt it, because I’ve seen and lived around Chinese people and around Americans/Westerners and the cultures couldn’t be more different… Regardless, if we take away the maybes, you have to objectively admit the American admin has been a blight on this world, through leaders on “both sides” of the American political spectrum, moreso than anyone in recent history.
You can hate all three, or you can hate the American admin and give more leeway to those who haven’t yet shown they’re entirely Godless and immoral, and you can certainly prefer the Chinese and Russian admin for the same reasons, I guess.