Hotter, Badder, and Unpopularer Takes

[Saruku]

It doesn't really matter if you personally oppose things like regime change wars/coups, sanctions, or the activities of the IMF and World Bank if your views on international affairs amount to anything less than complete rejection of the current world order because said world order can't exist without those things. You're still helping to perpetuate them.

[Saruku]

Anti-imperialist leftists (redundant, yes, but a necessary clarification on a forum like this) should approach modern Russia the way we might have approached Qing China. That is, understanding that while their government may be trash, they should still be supported against Western imperialism because their success would make things even worse for Russian workers (and workers worldwide, as well). If the West were to attain their goal of getting their subservient Russian neocolony of the 90s back, it would be a disaster.

[Saruku]

You cannot advocate for America's role in the world and then be shocked when it helps Saudi Arabia starve Yemen and helped to overthrow a democratically-elected government in Bolivia.

[Saruku]

Anti-Americanism is absurd.

Don't let the other Five Eyes or the EU off the hook.

[Saruku]

Criticizing communist states both for being "authoritarian" and for "recreating the capitalism they overthrew" makes little sense because the times where they were the farthest from a capitalist mode of production happen to coincide with the most violent/authoritarian times.