What? I don't remember receiving any such request, and certainly not refusing it
I see; I've never seen "neoimperialism" used as a synonym for neocolonialism elsewhere
so you're using "neoimperialism" to refer to what Lenin called imperialism?
"standard" as in the type practiced by the US, France and a few others (roughly, control through both finance capital and hands-on repression of resistance)?
of course; I'm just wondering whether it makes sense to call countries imperialist if they don't engage in imperialism independently (in which case more or less all of Europe would be imperialist)
if country A participates in country B's imperialist project (e.g. joining an invasion), wouldn't that make country A an imperialist power (albeit a lesser one) as well?
Isn't this just the ML definition of modern imperialism? Is there a country that's imperialist in the classical (pre-capitalist) sense?
which lecture is that?
archive.is and similar sites aren't great for Tor users (at best, you have to solve a CAPTCHA), so providing an alternate archive.org link would also be appreciated
I think that's pretty normal for USians, you can't say anything positive about the USSR without surrounding it with baseless or massively exaggerated claims about how awful everything was
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I see. I don't always pay attention to who sent the report since it usually doesn't matter. In the future, I'd recommend using a more descriptive report reason (in this case, adding "I'm a mod but I can't remove an admin's post" would have sufficed), and, if it happens again, sending another report or contacting the person who resolved the report
(apparently an admin can't delete another admin's post either, but I've asked DankZedong to remove it)