Socialist states can't be imperialist.
China Takes Port from Sri Lanka as Debt Payment
Matthew Clark
Luke Ross
*invades your independent nation and installs puppet dictator*
*reorients your economy to serve the motherland*
Heh, nothing personal imperialist
Jayden Bailey
Yeah but China ain't fucking socialist as shit like this proves
It is literally seizing land from another Nation for the purpose of economic Benifit
How is that not imperialism
Carter Evans
Hot take
Only Dengists think China is socialist
Jaxon Lewis
You're an idiot. China has collectivism and it has private ownership of the means of production. Those two traits clearly show China to be an authoritarian capitalist/fascist state.
Michael Wood
Real smooth brain hours
Isaac Anderson
Again implying things the USSR never did. Imperialism is specific to capitalism, read Lenin.
Joseph Perry
Wewest of lads
Landon Murphy
Tbh I think we need to reconsider Lenin’s definition of imperialism to include strategic imperialism, which I would define as the use of coercion against a country in order to gain a military or strategic geopolitical advantage over your rivals.
Jace Diaz
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