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Question: Would you have favored US intervention into Korea in 1950?
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« on: March 01, 2015, 10:30:11 PM »
« edited: March 01, 2015, 10:46:29 PM by ElectionsGuy »
No

The fifth option should be No (R)
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2015, 10:36:12 PM »
Yes (D)
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« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2015, 11:17:37 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2015, 11:46:57 PM »
Easy yes.
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2015, 11:49:58 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2015, 11:50:11 PM »
Yes, of course.
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« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2015, 11:52:05 PM »
Yes (R)
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« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2015, 12:11:03 AM »
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« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2015, 12:14:24 AM »
No (Anti-Imperialist)
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« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2015, 12:17:01 AM »
So only communists can be imperialists?

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« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2015, 12:21:19 AM »

Imperialist powers are those advanced industrial democracies in which capitalist development has moved beyond the competitive stage into the monopolistic stage. The degenerated workers' state of the 20th Century (USSR) and its deformed satellites and allies (PRC, DPRK, etc) could not be imperialist in the same sense by virtue of not being internally guided by capitalist social relations.
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« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2015, 12:44:15 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2015, 11:25:37 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2015, 11:27:02 AM »
Yes.
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« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2015, 11:56:42 AM »
Of course not.
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« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2015, 01:30:42 PM »
Yes with hindsight, probably no if I lived in the time.
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« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2015, 02:28:21 PM »
Yes (D)
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« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2015, 02:30:04 PM »
Obviously not
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« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2015, 02:38:43 PM »
An unprovoked invasion of a small country by North Korea, China and the USSR was not imperialist, but the multinational force under UN auspices defending them was?  Give me a break, that's insanity.  

Just curious, would you communists rather live in North Korea or South Korea right now?  

Because, it's hypocritical to want to consign other people to a life of unending misery and not want that life for yourself.
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« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2015, 02:39:45 PM »
Quote from: Senator TNF on March 02, 2015, 12:21:19 AM

Imperialist powers are those advanced industrial democracies in which capitalist development has moved beyond the competitive stage into the monopolistic stage. The degenerated workers' state of the 20th Century (USSR) and its deformed satellites and allies (PRC, DPRK, etc) could not be imperialist in the same sense by virtue of not being internally guided by capitalist social relations.

So, in other words, an "imperialist" country is one that does not prescribe to your ideology. Roll Eyes

Yes (D)
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« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2015, 02:48:21 PM »
« Edited: March 02, 2015, 02:55:42 PM by Reluctant Republican »
I'd have probably not supported it at the time, being rather war weary. But hindsight forces me to vote yes. A united Korea under the North's control is a rather sobering prospect, and I'd rather not have all the millions in the South condemned to living under it.

That said at the time I'd have probably opposed it, so technically a No for me.
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« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2015, 11:02:17 PM »
Quote from: bedstuy on March 02, 2015, 02:38:43 PM
An unprovoked invasion of a small country by North Korea, China and the USSR was not imperialist, but the multinational force under UN auspices defending them was?  Give me a break, that's insanity.  

Just curious, would you communists rather live in North Korea or South Korea right now?  

Because, it's hypocritical to want to consign other people to a life of unending misery and not want that life for yourself.

Indeed.  I would have supported the Korean War with hindsight, for sure.

I feel like Communists resort to a lot of special pleading.  For example, North Korea doesn't count as Communist because "Communism is stateless" ........ditto with imperialism and a lot of other terms.  It smacks of the stuff creationists use to disprove evolution by using a special definition of "science."
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« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2015, 11:06:47 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2015, 11:16:02 PM »
I will say yes for biased reasons...
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« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2015, 11:16:39 PM »
Yes is the correct left-wing response to this question.
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