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menas@lemmy.wtf 5 weeks agookay that seem to be coherent. We are used to define imperialism as “the system produce by the competition between states”. Some domination are note linked (or loosely) with market.
I understand why it’s interesting to focus on things we can fight on. But a lot of us couldn’t fight the financial market and it’s exportation. However we could blockade exportation of weapons, sending medic kit or foods to people that suffer from domination.
I’m not saying your definition is wrong, I’m saying that I found it ineffective for an international solidarity of the working class
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
To the contrary, understanding how capitalism turns to imperialism helps us see what countries have revolutionary potential, and how to end imperialism. Imperialism allows the capitalist class in the core to “bribe” their working classes, in the form of huge safety nets like in the nordic countries, or in the form of cheap commodities like in the US. This serves as a pressure valve. However, what this also means is that the contradictions are exported to the imperialized countries.
That’s why, in the global south, revolutionary movements have peppered the 20th and 21st centuries. Helping countries in the global south fight imperialism includes sabotaging war efforts against Iran and Palestine, for example. When diplomacy fails to force open markets for foreign plunder, imperialist countries turn to bombs. That’s why the US Empire is bombing Iran, to open their markets up for US companies to own Iranian oil production.
As anti-imperialists, we need to understand the motive forces of imperialism to break them. The solution to end imperialism is to pivot to socialism, and this is genuine international working class solidarity.