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[–] geikei@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if you assume this is just an interimperialist war, its basic Leninism for western communists to support and propagandize for the defeat of your own imperialist bloc in that war.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

America's been losing wars for a long time and no socialist project has ever erupted from it.

Revolutionary defeatism doesn't seem to work very well.

[–] grazing7264@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Vietnam turned a majority of Americans against the military for a number of years and gave black radicals enough room to create the Black Panther Party and end legally sanctioned segregation.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Was that worth the lives of all the Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians who were killed, or the generations afterwards who died from unexploded ordinance or birth defects? I don't think that's such a clear cut "yes".

Point being that non-interventionism would have been preferable, which is the position I've been taking all along.

[–] uherbs@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)