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An Open Letter On Putin’s War On Ukraine; to the website “Selected Marxist-Leninist Writings”
by Marxist-Leninist Currents Today
Introduction
We give below an open response to some of the main points of an article by Erdogan A with MLG, titled “Imperialism – in Ukraine Particular”. This can be found at: https://neodemocracy.blogspot.com/2022/03/imperialism-in-ukraine-particular.html (March 2, 2022).
The viewpoint of ‘Marxist-Leninist Currents Today’ was put in two articles, written before the open war. However they anticipated a possible – perhaps even likely – Russian invasion of Ukraine, which occurred on February 24th 2022. Our viewpoints are at:
https://ml-today.com/2022/02/11/imperialist-danse-macabre-over-the-peoples-of-ukraine/ (Feb 11 2022); and
https://ml-today.com/2022/02/06/theses-ukraine/ (Feb 6, 2022).
“Imperialism in Ukraine Particular” by Comrade Erdogan has a very different viewpoint from our own, but from within the ML-ist movement. We feel it necessary to comment purposes of mutual clarification. Erodogan defends and supports President Putin, and Russia in its current war, considering it as a progressive war. In broad terms Erdogan, argues it diminishes the power of the main imperialist world force of the USA; and that it has an anti-fascist character. We disagree with both these central matters.
While our response specifically addresses Erdogan, it is broader in scope. Admittedly, in only a quick and brief survey, the Marxist-Leninist movement seems severely split. Therefore we first briefly note different perspectives in the Marxist-Leninist movement.
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