Russia and China are NOT Imperialist states
Statement by the Liaison Committee for the Fourth
International
ON THE US/EU/NATO ATTACK ON THE UKRAINE
We need to tackle the ideological justification advanced by
both the pro Imperialist side and the fence-sitting third campist “neither
Moscow nor the US/EU/Nato but the international working class” side; that both
Russia and China are Imperialist states (“Eastern Imperialism”). Therefore any
conflict between either or both of them and US-dominated global Imperialism
(“Western Imperialism”) is a conflict between rival Imperialist powers and
therefore revolutionary socialists should support neither in that war. We
should advocate revolutionary defeatism for ourselves and for the
Russian/Chinese working class, i.e. they should seek the defeat of their own
bourgeoisie in order to combat the imperialist chauvinism that sweeps the
masses in wartime via its main conduit in modern times, the Labour and trade
union bureaucracy.
