Dear comrades,
We support the main idea behind your declaration
that imperialists prepare a new world war between themselves and against
the peoples of the world and that communists must unite against this
war and struggle for revolution as the only alternative. You are right
to say that it is wrong to 'give support to one of the imperialist
factions, when they are all deadly enemies of the oppressed and
exploited of the world'.
However, we decided not to sign your
statement due to disagreement with how you dealt with the issue of
Russian imperialism. When reading your statement, it may seem that only
American imperialism and its allies are preparing the new world war. You
call Ukraine a puppet of American imperialism and never mention that on
February 24th Russia invaded its former colony to subjigate it to its
will and later annexed large parts of Ukrainian territory which it
occupied. Your statement is written in such a way, that it could be even
published in Russia legally! Because you accuse only USA and NATO and
thus give indirect support to Russian propaganda.
We consider
Russia and China as aggressive imperialist powers who want to re-divide
the world and seize a bigger share than it was allowed them before by
American imperialism which is still the strongest. In your statement,
you mention this only once and indirectly. You called Ukrainians
'mercenary armies', while it is exactly the Russian army which is
mercenary - people are lured there by promises of high salaries and the
private Prigozhin army even recruits convicts in the prisons promising
them parole. Prigozhin mercenaries are also involved in plundering
resources of African continent - the true students of European
imperialists!
The Maoists always condemned the
social-imperialism, they opposed Brezhnev's invasions in Chekhoslovakia
in 1968 and in Afganistan in 1979. What is happening in Ukraine today is
not much different from that. It was only the revisionists who
supported those aggressive wars and now they support Russia and fascist
Putin regime because Russia is supposedly not an imperialist! This is
not real anti-imperialism, they only mislead the people.
It is
sad that real communists do not have a common stand against imperialism
and wars of aggression and some support Russia like CPP does.
Saturday, February 11, 2023
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“You call Ukraine a puppet of American imperialism and never mention that on February 24th Russia invaded its former colony to subjigate it to its will and later annexed large parts of Ukrainian territory which it occupied.”
ReplyDeleteYou are deceiving foreign comrades. You are silent about the fact that this is not just an abstract territory, but a territory with a Russian population, which is threatened by Ukrainian neo-fascism in the style of Stepan Bandera. Of course, Putin is an imperialist, but the strongest NATO imperialism has made him unwillingly play a progressive role if he wants to survive under external pressure. The special military operation being carried out by Russia is of a national liberation, defensive and anti-fascist nature.
O. Torbasow, the Russian Maoist Party