>>2741482Wrong. You just took notes from a 1915 manuscript out of context, whereas Lenin's own writings and those of the Bolsheviks on the self-determination of nations don't reach your moralistic conclusion. I, on the other hand, took a text discussing the labor aristocracy, a type of worker who is a minority group that will try to deceive the workers by collaborating with the bourgeoisie. If they become class traitors, they will try to weaken the workers' movement and co-opt them. This will eventually lead, after bribing these class traitors, to the creation of excuses and illusions for the masses and the workers. This will lead to the loss of labor rights for both native workers and the intensification of imperialist exploitation, giving the bourgeoisie more resources to crush the workers of their own country internally, resulting in all workers losing collectively. Remember that the labor aristocracy would gain along with the other workers if they received concessions from the capitalists and showed solidarity instead of inventing lies to appease the bourgeoisie. You can see this by reading Lenin's text in "Imperialism and the Split in Socialism" from 1916, and these notes you are projecting your resentment against workers in the imperialist core, trying to impose your moralistic interpretation, are not consistent with Lenin's published texts, which were published in their entirety. In contrast, these incomplete notes in a manuscript contradict my own 1916 text, which is more important than yours and was published later. This demonstrates that you are lying, trying to create complacency among workers so they don't follow their class interests, which are shared with workers on the periphery of capitalist imperialism. You believe that reducing anti-imperialism to moralism—feeling sorry for the workers of the Global South and feeling guilty for being a worker of the First World—is an anti-Marxist position. In any case, your interpretation, by contradicting all of Lenin's complete and later texts, which are more important, leads to the conclusion that your argument should be discarded.
Just a reminder that I am a worker from the Global South, so there's no point in you throwing insults at me, because you're probably some resentful member of the imperialist core trying to co-opt the workers into passivity and appease the bourgeoisie, hiding the o
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