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you shouldn't.
there are many people who call themselves marxist-leninists on this site who do not subscribe to anything marx or lenin had to say about inter-imperialist conflict.
communists and marxists and leninists always seek peace above all else.
the only war worth fighting is class war and the inter-imperialist rivalry won't benefit the working class.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/feb/08.htm
as a bonus, this speech is particularly prophetic. lenin calls calls out basically the next 100 years of US foreign policy in 1917.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/may/14.htm
the only thing the people who call ourselves marxists leninists should be hoping for is a quick peace, a lasting peace, and a humiliating peace for both sides so that the army mutinies and makes proletarian seizure of state power possible (like happened in russia, angola, mozambique, etc.)
even tho virtue signalling is what most people here support, they have decided to support the russian government who made domestic abuse entirely legal and who criminalize queer identities freely expressing. condemning russia's government is not endorsing ukraine's.
EDIT: this entire site is filled with ultras, third-worldists, and campists whose beliefs amount to little more than "america bad" but framed in whatever quotations of leftist thinkers they need to justify themselves. read for yourself, think for yourself, and above all just get organized instead of treating politics like religious salvation and orthodoxy like so many people do.
This is a bad faith way to start your post on this and also doesn't make sense in this context. Russia isn't imperialist, so how is it inter-imperialist rivalry? Some reasoning on why Russia is not imperialist found here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Imperialism#Russian_%22imperialism%22
It is possible we're reading different posts, but in my time here, how I see Russia talked about is with the term "critical support" if support is given at all; meaning that (roughly speaking) the person supports them with regard to resisting the western empire, but does not support anything else about its leadership, necessarily. Russia and the US are far from equal powers dueling for hegemony, as a framing like "inter-imperialist conflict" might suggest, and it is not helpful to understanding imperialism or global conflict to reduce something to "both sides" simply because neither government is socialist.
IIRC, Mao goes into the concept in On Contradiction, of varying allying conditions with the Kuomintang and how that relationship evolved. I think it's a decent analog to what we're talking about here. Imperialism is the prevailing force of global power, not local reactionaries, and so some amount of allowance for that needs to be made in considering who is and isn't worth "supporting": https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
And modern day China seems to understand this and utilizes it to further an alternative to the western imperialist order. If they were only willing to have ties with those states who are controlled by a communist vanguard party, they'd have limited allies on the global stage, which would make it easier for the empire to isolate them, undermine them, etc.
If China had been the "good" communist and stopped commodity production and only allied with communist parties and sent them money every year so they could develop they would still live in the 1970s, but this poverty ultras would call an example of socialism.
Unrelated to the comment chain lol I just wanted to add that in.
is this a response to me?
i'm a bit confused.
i don't know what the CPC have to do with the question of whether people on the internet should say they like Russia or Ukraine in a war.
No no, I was just responding to the last paragraph of the parent comment
ah ok. my apologies :D