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I don't understand the appeal of "multipolarity" (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by Lilybump@lemmygrad.ml to c/leftistinfighting@lemmygrad.ml

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Personally, I fail to see why many Marxist-Leninists support multipolarity. The primary goal of the Leninist movements has always been "workers of the world unite!" and not "non-US-aligned countries unite!".

To be clear, in saying this, I am not endorsing US-led unipolarity. I am just saying that multipolarity is not inherently good as some MLs suggest. For example, the world in 1914 and 1939 were without a doubt multipolar, and those both resulted in brutal world wars which killed millions.

Could somebody explain why people support multipolarity so much?

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[–] Chana@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I find this reply hard to follow. It is definitely not in the same order of what I wrote and it is seemingly responding to and it does not provide enough context to be certain about what is meant about half the time. It reads like you read parts of my comment and then started responding, but I don't always know which parts you're responding to. I was going to try and organize it into something I could respond to, but it ended up being similar to the last one: seemingly disagreeing with things I didn't say (straw men), basic factual errors about BRICS and equivocation between the organization, its members, and some nerds that predicted an eventual BRICS-like entity, and enough incompleteness that I had to constantly revisit ky previous comment to see what main points had not been addressed. I wrote maybe 1/3 of a reply before my browser crashed. So, this would be a lot of effort on my part and seems silly given the content of your comments so far.

So I don't think this is a particularly serious discussion or that you even really care. If you do, then I would need you to rewrite your comment so that it makes sense.

[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I never once strawmanned you. And now you're just being a douche.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 0 points 5 days ago (4 children)

You have multiple times and likely because you're just not really putting in any effort to understand or communicate - such as in writing an incoherent out-of-order reply with no indication of what you're even replying to with each paragraph. Another example would be that your most recent comment ignores nearly everything I wrote but does lash out at me - just like your first comment.

Please be comradely. I am not your punching bag.

[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I never once strawmanned you, and your gaslighting is disgusting.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 1 points 4 days ago

You did, of course, and I pointed out where. You can go back, quote it, and talk about it more if you would like to. And if you want to talk about the incoherent comment and its seeming continued straw men, I really will need you to rewrite it to be coherent, because I am not going to go into that potential spiral if you don't actually care (and you absolutely show no interest in doing so).

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