anti-imperialist

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Articulating Israeli apartheid as a crime, in short, gives revolutionary socialists an opening to inject anti-imperialist politics into both the Palestinian rights and antiwar movements while working to link those movements to each other more explicitly.

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  1. Pertaining to the ideas of the anti-imperialists.
  2. One who is opposed to imperialism, or to the spirit, principle, or methods of empire; specifically, in United States politics, one who is opposed to the acquisition and government of dependencies beyond the seas by the arbitrary will of President or Congress, without regard to the rights of the people to self-government. In use especially since the Spanish-American war of 1898.

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  • In this light, the "anti-imperialist" Robert Mugabe turns out to be merely the final executor of the policies of the racist colonists Cecil Rhodes and Ian Smith. —  Prometheus 6 - All respect and no restraint
  • I have comented previously on the central piece of bad faith contained in this common leftist trope: it glides around the fact that these at-heart-undemocratic political systems, these class dictatorships, are superior as democracies to any alternative political system so far created by anti-capitalist or anti-imperialist regimes. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • But the objective necessity of such a program and perspective came up against the domination of the anti-imperialist movement by the national bourgeoisie, abetted by the Stalinist parties.
  • In India, the Theory of Permanent Revolution was vindicated in the disastrous betrayal of the anti-imperialist independence movement by Gandhi, Nehru, and the bourgeois Congress Party in 1947-48.
  • The key role was played by the Stalinist parties, which consistently advanced their class-collaborationist "two stage" theory of struggle - first independence under the leadership of the bourgeoisie and only later, at some unspecified point in the future, socialism - effectively blocking the struggle by the working class to establish its political hegemony in the mass anti-imperialist movement and take power.
 

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