[lbo-talk] Russia and Iran

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 11 11:46:15 PDT 2006


On Sep 11, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Chris Doss wrote:


> CB:
> In this case, Russian , Venezuela and Iran are not
> imperialist countries,
> are they ? They have no colonies, for one thing.
>
> ---
>
> But you don't understand. They are all bourgeois
> states, and, therefore, are essentially equivalent to
> all other bourgeois states.

Russia has quite an imperial history, and I'd be surprised if it were adverse to reliving the old glories of empire.

Doug



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