Remembering when the CIA set up a fake humanitarian vaccine program in Pakistan to steal DNA from people to find bin Laden. They didn't even actually fulfill the vaccine part, either.
Usually the way NATOists and liberals put it is "'America Bad' is not an ideology / political philosophy", and it's like okay, it's still fucking true though. What am I supposed to do with a true statement if not believe it? And what am I supposed to do with that belief if not let it inform my broader ideology, especially when it relates to the country I live in, which also happens to be the current global hegemon?
You will be in the moral right 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of time if your position is USA bad for all of geopolotics
Absolutely, how can it possibly matter whether any given communist is specifically an anarchist or ML or whatever when the US is the global hegemon? People who believe in any of these ideologies trying to enact radical change are going to get crushed under the United States' boot all the same.
Taking down the US is a prerequisite for coming anywhere close to communism, it's not possible otherwise. Therefore left unity with the number one goal of weakening the US should be our highest priority. Russia losing the Ukraine proxy war will not make the lives of Russian LGBT people better. Nor will it make it any easier for leftists to take back control of the country. But Russia winning the Ukraine proxy war will certainly hurt the ability of the US and NATO to suppress leftist movements outside the imperial core.
If you don't want to spend a big chunk of time reading all about a country you've barely even thought of (looking at you, Gabon. I'm sorry I know this reflects on me), "America bad" will usually get you to the correct take anyways. The seat of global capital has habits.
I'd hate on any country that was the bloodthirsty, manipulative, living incarnation of capitalist interests at the world level, the US just happens to be that.
A Marxist understanding of capitalism leads to anti-imperialism. Anti-imperialism is understood by detractors as a simple rhetorical dressing over simplistic heuristics like “reflexive anti-americanism,” “history repeats itself,” and “the military-industrial complex needs contracts,” but all of these are reductive. Marxists understand that human political leadership in the imperial periphery, whether enlightened or tyrannical, will only be antagonized by empire for one single possible reason: it is getting in the way of market penetration. This is phrased succinctly by Kevin Dooley when criticizing Noam Chomsky’s support for a military alliance between the Kurds and the USA in Syria: “The difference between [Chomsky’s] position and a hard-line anti-imperialist position isn’t tactical. What he’s arguing is simply a violation of anti-imperialist principles based on a fundamentally different understanding of what can drive the empire to act in the world.” [16]
The accusation that anti-imperialists are unconcerned with human rights deserves a sharp rebuke. The USA was born of slavery and genocide, dropped atomic bombs as a matter of political brinkmanship, imported Nazi scientists and installed war criminals like Klaus Barbie and Nobusuke Kishi around the world to defend and advance anti-communist positions [17], and enthusiastically supports gruesome butcherers today. Simply put, Capital has destroyed innumerable countries and murdered hundreds of millions directly and indirectly. It is precisely a concern for the rights of humans that should make one immediately skeptical of any humanitarian posturing by Capital. Anti-imperialism not only means support for the important pro-social projects of states like Cuba, Vietnam, and China; it also means critical support for non-socialist states such as Iran and Russia. Critical support acknowledges that, though instituting various indefensible policies, enemies of empire are not being antagonized because of said policies. The only thing that can drive empire to act in the world is capital accumulation.
If you give me one person who calls themselves a socialist but believes the US state department' line on all America's rivals, and a second person who has mever even heard the word "socialism" but simply ontologicaɔly hates and opposes America through some arcane grudge, the second person will always be a better socialist, even accidentally.
Am I the only one that hates people saying that something isn't good, it's great? It does not make any sense, and it's not even funny. It's like the "was I a good boy" meme:
Just because America does bad things/is bad doesn't give other nations a pass to do bad things/be bad. Often people use whataboutism to justify or excuse Russia's aggression or China's genocide. All of these things can be bad and worthy of reproach.