Anti-Imperialism in the 21st Century

Is internationalism-once the standard for the global left-still a viable idea in today’s multipolar world? And, if so, how can it best be achieved? What would a progressive US foreign policy look like? And what lessons can be learned from Afghanistan? Iraq? Syria? Is intervention by the US ever justified-and if so, under what conditions? Watch the debate moderated by D.D. Guttenplan with Gilbert Achcar, Nadje Al-Ali, Phyllis Bennis, Bill Fletcher, Jr.-all deeply-informed experts on US foreign-policy, the Middle East and the global left.
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[@lupedelgadillo2257]

World currency,world wages,world Religion

[@ThePeaceReport]

This is sad a fruitless conversation. Why? These folks, as well-intended as they are, have a poor class analysis of any of the topics they discussed. Achcar came the closest. But we cannot never lump together an entire nation. The "people" and "nation" are different. The "nation" includes all classes in that society, oppressed classes AND oppressor classes (each nation has its own characteristics). The "people" only refer to people who will benefit from revolution. We can never say "the US should or should not do this or that". The US capitalist-imperialist class has an opposing interest to the proletariat class, and other parts of other classes that have been won over to the political line of socialist revolution. With this important class analysis, we are all duped into using bourgeois language and analysis, and their analysis/perspective benefits them. We, the people of the world who want the world to benefit the majority, must have our own analysis that benefits us. I can go on and on, but please don't think these people represent the "anti-imperialist movement" in the US. Most of them are careerists, not organizers.

[@rd264]

JFK formulated the best response i know of to these questions which he expressed in his famous June 1963 speech at American University.

[@tymanung6382]

One needs to see all internal + external aspects of a gov or movement. Like countries, they can have severe contradictions.betwen internal.vs. external. Examples. Democratic Unity Party of Syrian Kurds ran the Rojava community--- internal.democracy, BUT carried out autocratic policies towards others local.Arabs, etc. complained of forced conscription into DUP' s army Syrian. gov complains that DUP + US seized 1/3 of Syria, steal.+ sell for selves the oil + wheat--- no request to Syrian gov or.people. This is similar to Athenian democracy, Roman Republic, English.monarchy, French monarchy in 1800s (post Napoleon), US, Caribbean pirates ship crews, etc.Internal democracy or internal autocracy/dictatorship mean little or nothing to an empires or pirates targets/ victims. Also, empires intl.crisis "cures", military or economic, are always worse than the original real but minor, or lied about, "ills". Libya, Iraq, ex Yugoslavia, Chile under Pinochet, England France US. 1 sided weapons boycott vs, Spanish Republic, etc., etc., etc. (far too many etc.s).

[@juanmhernandez9925]

Stop attacking AMLO

[@papapapa-yr6vf]

about anti-imperialism US, only ? What about the chinese imperialism...?

[@rd264]

wow hong kong + taiwan.

[@tymanung6382]

Honk Kong + Taiwan Province are still, by intl + local.laws, legal parts if 1 China Policy or not, Taiwan since 1500s, HK. always. English, US, Japanese empires all stole these parts from Chinese Wing Manchu ethnic ruling minority over the rest of China s empire.

[@lupedelgadillo2257]

DEMOCRACY ALA 21ST CENTURY......

[@williams.1980]

It sounds like there are a lot of disclaimers required for The Nation to be anti-imperialist. It's as if to be anti-imperialist there has to be ample apology and deference for the status quo. Not very anti-imperialist but dangerously woke. Unwatchable.