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.
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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…