If modern Russia is no longer doing these things then it’d be unfair to still consider it settler colonial as the settler colonial model is built on exploitation of a specific nation, if that nation is no longer exploited to a greater degree than the colonizer proletariat/labor aristocracy then its no longer a colonizer settler dynamic as the basis the the settler system no longer exists.
settler colonial model is built on exploitation of a specific nation, if that nation is no longer exploited to a greater degree than the colonizer proletariat/labor aristocracy
Well if you count the semi- and illegal immigrants from the former Soviet republics in Asia (i.e. Tajikistan), maybe? But otherwise, we’re all getting exploited on class basis these days.
If modern Russia is no longer doing these things then it’d be unfair to still consider it settler colonial as the settler colonial model is built on exploitation of a specific nation, if that nation is no longer exploited to a greater degree than the colonizer proletariat/labor aristocracy then its no longer a colonizer settler dynamic as the basis the the settler system no longer exists.
Well if you count the semi- and illegal immigrants from the former Soviet republics in Asia (i.e. Tajikistan), maybe? But otherwise, we’re all getting exploited on class basis these days.