What Lenin teaches anti-imperialists about Ukraine

Today's debate over imperialism in the Russo-Ukrainian war directly echoes one of Lenin's most ferocious debates with Karl Kautsky.

May 22, 2022

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Bust of Lenin (with translation) at the Teatralna metro station in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo credit Jacopo Romei. Licensed under Creative Commons 2.0.

I probably should have written this article three months ago, but I honestly didn’t expect the left discourse on the Russo-Ukrainian war to be infected with so much confusion. A socialist understanding of imper…

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