>>2788523>You simply fail to recognize that anti-imperialism *is* part pf the overal arc of the proletarian revolutionIf you think I've failed to recognize that then you don't understand a word of my point. Anti-imperialism (even when bourgeois led) is obviously part of the socialist struggle, but unless it is followed by a revolutionary socialist government of workers and peasants, it becomes an exercise in futility. National bourgeois governments can accomplish important historical tasks without which socialism would be impossible, but their progressive potential is highly conditional, limited, and prone to disappearing as they reach a modus vivendi with imperialism. This has happened over and over again, and it is exceedingly rare for a national bourgeois revolution to result in socialism. Far more common is for the anti-imperialist orientation of such governments to gradually fade before evaporating completely (after neutralizing the local communists), bringing us back to square one.
>All that so you can flatten the first world workers, who are aiding imperialism or doing nothing, with the third world workers, who are opposing it, as both "not doing revolution"I stand by that statement. Workers in the third world are not displaying much more in the way of independent class power and consciousness than their Western counterparts. They are absorbed into the political orbit of their bourgeoisie. The only difference is that the third world bourgeoisie which has absorbed them has some progressive potential, whereas the first world bourgeoisie do not. The working people of national bourgeois countries are absolutely being led into a better cause, but the problem is that they are being led rather than leading. This is the obvious origin of your impulse to substitute national bourgeois for proletarian politics and regimes, and your reluctance to acknowledge the clear limitations of the national bourgeoisie as a progressive force. If you were to acknowledge first, that the national bourgeoisie cannot supplant the proletariat as the ultimate revolutionary subject, and second, that the third world proletariat is captured by their bourgeoisie, you would be forced to abandon your chauvinist, anti-Marxist notions that replace class struggle with geopolitical cheerleading. I hope Iran utterly
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