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The Dig: Ukraine w/ Volodymyr Ishchenko

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What's the Difference Between a Revolution and a Western Conspiracy?

Anti-imperialism is a way to delegitimize the revolutions, he says. Of course there are legitimate concerns that drive people thog the streets, but they aren't articulated or organized,. And so the result of the revolutions is not solution for the crisis, but cscalation of the crisis. Those revolutions do not challenge the ruling class. At most, they drive out one of the factions, one of the patenal groups, inted class. That means that you can have a revolution which changes practically nothing, except of removing a group of the one group of the rulingled. But it doesn't really threaten ther basic fundamental economic interests.

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