https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/We-should-recognize-that-there-are-other-imperialisms-A-Marxist-dissident https://internationalviewpoint.org/We-should-recognize-that-there-are-other-imperialisms-A-Marxist-dissident 2015-04-20T08:47:30Z text/html en Charles Davis, Ilya Budraitskis Russia Ukraine Imperialism today <p>Russia today is not as depicted on Russia Today, the English-language news network established by the Russian government in 2005 that paints a capitalist state led by a right-wing nationalist in pseudo-left colors: the anti-America, almost, where the poor are always fed – not just shot dead by racist police – and foreign policy is motivated not by cynical self-interest, but a dogged, one might even say principled determination to stand athwart U.S. imperialism and yell “stop!” The critiques the network airs of poverty in the United States and Washington's bloody wars abroad are an amusing, completely fair rejoinder to the State Department's habit of pointing out the human rights hypocrisy of everyone else, but the implication that things are any better in Moscow is no less amusing to leftists in Russia who are aware an Occupy Red Square, like Occupy Wall Street, would be crushed with all the skull-cracking efficiency a state can muster.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-Imperialisms-today-" rel="directory">Imperialisms today</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Russia-+" rel="tag">Russia</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Ukraine-+" rel="tag">Ukraine</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Imperialism-today-+" rel="tag">Imperialism today</a>