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Lenin's "The Defeat of One's Own Government in the Imperialist War" | GZD Reading Group | Week 12, 2024
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We're starting off with a very short one for the first week. This text was published in 1915, two years before the October revolution, and is sadly still highly relevant in the imperial core.
This reading group is meant to educate, and people from any instances federated with Lemmygrad are welcome. Any comments not engaging in good faith will be removed (don't respond to hostile comments, just report them).
You can post questions or share your thoughts at any time. We'll be moving on to a new text next week, but this thread won't be locked.
You can read the text here.
1: I find it revolutionary since it challenges the status quo of the uni-polar world. it is revolutionary in the current world context, just like bourgeois revolutions were revolutionary in their context.
2: i agree that the conditions are prime for a revolution, but where is the organization? revolution doesn't happen spontaneously by itself.
3: i can agree with this but it's non-important if there is no organization to cooperate with.
Was Iraqi invasion of Kuwait revolutionary because it went against US interests?
I am not knowledgeable on the topic but i do not have any simpathies toward the gulf monarchies, which are known US protectorates.
Edit: adding to this, as i mentioned before "Class Struggle" dives more deep into the nuances of class struggle and the forms it cant take in the local/regional/global scale. Seemingly reactionary conflicts can be globally progressive while seemingly progressive conflicts can be globally reactionary, just like oppressed classes like the proletariat can be the oppresor in the family context with the exploitation of the women in the household, and even the oppressed women can be the oppresor in regards with the children.