kinda they export capital goods, their corporations behave in imperialist ways sometimes and im sure their capitalist would love to be an empire, however they are not part of or atleast not at the core of the global imperialist capitalist system that exists today they are a victim of it and of organizations like the imf and the world bank not the beneficiaries, and while they export capital goods they do so at about the same rate as brazil and south korea for example countries which no one would refer to as being part of the core. so no
however russia is a settler colonial country and is imperialist in that way and while i get that the problems faced by indigenous people in russia are rather minor compared to countries like the usa or canada its kinda fucked up that most leftits wont even acknowledge this reality.
Just because a state is pluri-national does not automatically make it settler-colonial. By the same logic you could claim China is settler-colonial, but that would be a misunderstanding of what a settler-colonial state is. The Russian Federation is not the Russian Empire. National minorities have their own republics since they were liberated by the Bolsheviks. The socialist aspect of the USSR is gone but the national autonomy of ethnic republics has remained in the structure of the Russian Federation. This does not mean that ethnic minorities never face any social injustice, and of course there is still a struggle against Great Russian chauvinism, but the USSR was not perfect in this respect either although it made great efforts to rectify such injustices wherever it could.
kinda they export capital goods, their corporations behave in imperialist ways sometimes and im sure their capitalist would love to be an empire, however they are not part of or atleast not at the core of the global imperialist capitalist system that exists today they are a victim of it and of organizations like the imf and the world bank not the beneficiaries, and while they export capital goods they do so at about the same rate as brazil and south korea for example countries which no one would refer to as being part of the core. so no
however russia is a settler colonial country and is imperialist in that way and while i get that the problems faced by indigenous people in russia are rather minor compared to countries like the usa or canada its kinda fucked up that most leftits wont even acknowledge this reality.
Just because a state is pluri-national does not automatically make it settler-colonial. By the same logic you could claim China is settler-colonial, but that would be a misunderstanding of what a settler-colonial state is. The Russian Federation is not the Russian Empire. National minorities have their own republics since they were liberated by the Bolsheviks. The socialist aspect of the USSR is gone but the national autonomy of ethnic republics has remained in the structure of the Russian Federation. This does not mean that ethnic minorities never face any social injustice, and of course there is still a struggle against Great Russian chauvinism, but the USSR was not perfect in this respect either although it made great efforts to rectify such injustices wherever it could.
by what definition is Russia settler-colonial?