Russia-Ukraine Invasion
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Multipolarity, the Mantra of Authoritarianism
Multipolarity is the compass orienting the Left’s understanding of international relations. All streams of the Left in India and globally have for long advocated for a multipolar world as opposed to a unipolar one dominated by the imperialist USA.
At the same time, multipolarity has become the keystone of the shared language of global fascisms and authoritarianisms. It is a rallying cry for despots, that serves to dress up their war on democracy as a war on imperialism. The deployment of multipolarity to disguise and legitimise despotism is immeasurably enabled by the ringing endorsement by the global Left of multipolarity as a welcome expression of anti-imperialist democratisation of international relations.
By framing its response to political confrontations within or between nation states as a zero-sum option between endorsing multipolarity or unipolarity, the Left perpetuates a fiction that even at its best, was always misleading and inaccurate. But this fiction is positively dangerous today, serving solely as a narrative and dramatic device to cast fascists and authoritarians in flattering roles.
The unfortunate consequences of the Left’s commitment to a value-free multipolarity are illustrated very starkly in the case of its response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The global and the Indian Left have legitimised and amplified (to varying degrees) Russian fascist discourse, by defending the invasion as a multipolar challenge to US-led unipolar imperialism.
- Quite. The battle for 'multi-polarity' ignores the fact that the 'mono-polar' order consists of a fuckload of mostly-aligned countriesNairn
- https://www.theguard…Khurram
- Lula's version of multi-polarity seems very different from Putin. He's talking about diplomatic alliances, ending embargo on Cuba, all seems very reasonable.yuekit
- So these ideas can really be used to justify anything. From perspective of many post Soviet countries like Ukraine they wanted freedom from Russia,yuekit
- but Russia continues to meddle in these countries. You could say the war is more about Russia's attempt to reimpose a unipolar order (led by them of course)yuekit
- lol. Let's all use Putin's definition for everything. Create a straw man. And attack the left. Stupid idiot.Khurram
- Read Lula's opinion carefully and take note:Khurram
- "Lula and his allies do not identify with the concept of the “free world”, nor with the idea that the United States sits at its helm...Khurram
- They believe that a multipolar world is now in formation, and that their task – through an active, assertive and independent foreign policy – is to play...Khurram
- ...a positive role in it. Brazil does not need the US to “lead the world”. It needs the US to find a new place at the table."Khurram
- "All very reasonable" mmmhmmm. And the US and that senile scrotum in charge of that country will set the world on fire before they allow that to happenKhurram
- The article is talking only about Putin's version of "multipolarity." You might notice Lula didn't support the war in Ukraine so apparently he doesn't see it asyuekit
- an existential struggle against the West like some people do. So the issue is how this term has been co-opted by the far right, and then some leftists go alongyuekit
- with it. The multipolar world Putin has in mind is probably more like this...
https://www.mod-lang…yuekit - This entire thread is a propaganda wartoemaas
- Life is a propaganda war broyuekit