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🏳️‍⚧️ 𝓐𝓷𝓱𝓮𝓭𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓪∞💜 🎼 @nihilisthex.bsky.social · 5d

回到中文语境关于什么是“西方帝国主义”这件事(参见引用里对这个概念的诠释) 最近伊朗的大规模抗议和网络上的各种反应让我感到很大relevance 也让我对左翼主流叙事感到很无奈
因为最近有很多西方左翼在给那些付出生命抗议的伊朗人扣上“受美国/以色列/西方帝国主义鼓动的极右势力”的帽子近期又发生了马杜罗被特朗普政府绑架的事让很多左翼对“帝国主义势力干涉”这件事变得极其敏感导致在伊朗的问题上轻率地定性这仍然是个非常自我中心的出发点完全掩盖过了实际去了解伊朗这个国家的历史、现今的国情和民意的重要性
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🏳️‍⚧️ 𝓐𝓷𝓱𝓮𝓭𝓸𝓷𝓲𝓪∞💜 🎼 @nihilisthex.bsky.social · Nov 19

https://twitter.com/aurorachaang/status/1990239041095340338

they should invent a leftist political influencer who is sharp in their critique of western imperialism who doesn't fall into the russia/china state propaganda pipeline and end up an orientalist russophile/sinophile doing atrocity denial for regimes they don't understand

https://twitter.com/slantchev/status/1990455817976660013

Quoting the first tweet:
The core problem is that “Western imperialism” is an ideological construct, not an analytical category. Every policy by Western state is seen through a colonialist lens, regardless of context, intent, or empirical effect. Once that premise is adopted, the normative conclusion follows automatically: opposition to the West is, by definition, anti-imperialist, and whatever actor positions itself as the counterweight becomes morally exculpated.

But this structure is incoherent. You cannot build a consistent theory of imperialism that treats the Western powers as uniquely capable of domination while relegating Russia, China, or any other authoritarian state to the status of misunderstood regional actors. That move doesn’t rest on evidence; it rests on an outdated dependency-theory inversion in which the moral valence of an action is determined entirely by who performs it, not by what it actually is.

The war in Ukraine is the clearest demonstration of how untenable this is. Large parts of the Western left recast Russia’s invasion as a “defensive” response to NATO because the framework requires it, while Ukrainian leftists, who confronted the reality of occupation, had to break with that narrative because they see Western actions as helping Ukraine in its struggle for independence and freedom against Russian imperialism.

You can’t square that circle. A coherent anti-imperialist must judge behavior, not simply invert the moral polarity of the Cold War and find a new patron saint.

Better yet, ditch the normative labeling of “Western imperialism” that distorts your analysis and move to a more coherent definition of “imperialism” instead. You don’t have to be (and shouldn’t be) value-neutral, just consistent.

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不要西方帝国主义，也不要本国国家暴力！

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