By Nikos Mottas
The widespread
claim that recent imperialist bluntness, epitomized by the Trump
doctrine, has “destroyed international law” rests on a false
premise: that such a law ever existed as a binding, neutral framework
above imperialism.
From a Marxist-Leninist standpoint, this belief is
not an error of detail but a fundamental ideological illusion.
Imperialism has never been restrained by international law. On the
contrary, what is called “international law” has always been a
secondary product of imperialist relations,
tolerated only insofar as it served monopoly interests and discarded
whenever it ceased to do so.