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.
>
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> 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