Sunday, March 9, 2014

A Nation Is Not a Person: Now Let's Talk About Ukraine

Click here to access article by John Spritzler from New Democracy World. 

Spritzler argues against the way most articles frame the events happening in Ukraine.
When these articles, as they so often do, tell their readers that one of the nations is imperialist and the other anti-imperialist, they are telling their readers to support a government (the "anti-imperialist" one) that oppresses its own people. No good can come from this!

What these articles fail to grasp is that when two nations (by which I mean two ruling classes) are in conflict, there is no need to support one in order to oppose the other. Doing so means taking the side of the oppressor against the oppressed in the so-called "good" nation.
However, I think there are ruling classes that are worse than others--in fact, much worse with regard to peaceful relations between ruling classes.