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There is an unspoken agreement between US and Iran to maintain the delicate balance of power in the region.

Losing Islamist Iran period means losing Iraq to a power vacuum.

Losing Islamist Iran to communists is doomsday scenario for capitalists, the resource rich region is filled with unpopular regimes and immiserated workers. Iran and Iraq (the most susceptible for revolution) alone make up a quarter of the world oil supply. The stakes are too high to allow an unpredictable mass movement (that cannot be entirely controlled) to overthrow the regime.

Iran poses zero threat to western imperialism, in fact in places like Iraq and Lebanon it is the lever that is maintaining it. Decades of wheeling and dealing through backchannels have exposed this myth for what it is - a false dichotomy that sets the ideological framework for US and Iranian imperialism in the region, so-called "Axis of Resistance" and "Forces of Order"

Does this mean they're in agreement on everything and Iran is secretly run by da juice? Of course not, that's conspiratorial and Kautskyist nonsense. They're united in so far as their class interests meet, mostly in suppressing workers and maintaining the status quo.

Will this last forever? No, eventually a war will break out due to capital's growing contradictions and the need to counter overproduction through destruction. The region and the world broadly have yet to fall into designated camps for such event to happen, that will spark the a third global imperialist war.

Don't fall into this false dichotomy, or prepare to be disappointed. Learn from the communist parties in the region who have reached this conclusion.

No war but class war

>>2648960
>2nd pic
>foreign invasion = domestic policing
Are you this stupid or do you think we are this stupid?

>>2648960
>losing Islamist Iran to communists is doomsday scenario for capitalists
Unfortunately, there's no communist/socialist force that could make this a possibility.

Two capitalist powers fighting over regional hegemony.

The more likely outcome of a post-Iran-collapse power vacuum in Iraq is another civil war with Shiite and Sunni militias


>>2649056
>Unfortunately, there's no communist/socialist force that could make this a possibility.
There are several parties more disciplined and organized than anywhere else in the world. It is unclear when/if they can turn into a mass movement.

original

I agree. The corpse of the cold war is slowly fading away, and the excuse that the world is divided in "ideologies" is fading with it.

>>2649172
answer the first post, shill

>There is an unspoken agreement between US and Iran to maintain the delicate balance of power in the region.
Sorry Anon, but there is literally nothing to suggest this.
>Losing Islamist Iran period means losing Iraq to a power vacuum.
Since when does the American Empire fear a power vacuum? They deliberately created them in Libya, Syria, and Somalia. A power vacuum is better than a hostile state.
>Iran poses zero threat to western imperialism
This is obviously untrue, otherwise there wouldn't be armed conflict between Iranian and Western proxies, or between Western states and Iran itself. Let's not forget that Israel and Iran fought a war less than a year ago. Was this just for funsies? Did the US bomb the Houthis for a lark?
>They're united in so far as their class interests meet
Completely ahistorical. Capitalists will side with communists if they feel that other capitalists are a bigger threat to their interests, and vice versa. Britain and America considered Germany a bigger threat than the USSR and so they formed an alliance against the Nazis. China considered the USSR a bigger threat than America so they formed an alliance with them against the Soviets. In Angola communist Cuban troops protected Exxon-operated oilfields from CIA backed UNITA contras. Politics always produces a wide range of alliances and antagonisms that cross class lines.
>a false dichotomy that sets the ideological framework for US and Iranian imperialism in the region
A completely absurd statement. Iran does not have the level of financialization, trade footprint, or capital export to be an imperialist country, i.e. a net beneficiary of the world imperialist system. Imperialism isn't a policy, its an economic system and only those who dominate and benefit from it are imperialist.
>The region and the world broadly have yet to fall into designated camps for such event to happen
They have fallen into these camps, you're just insisting that they haven't and that we should ignore what we see before us in favour of belief in some kind of secret cooperation.

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>After this massacre, the political scene and atmosphere in Iran have changed forever. A society that is still mourning its lost loved ones, angrily seeks a way to escape this Islamic calamity, seeks a way to resist the efforts of the entire reactionary movement, from the Islamic Republic to the US government and their puppets, to impose despair upon itself.

>In this climate, the United States has threatened to intervene ’in favour of the demonstrators’, but it is not easy to understand whether they will opt for regime change, as happened, with the roles reversed, in 1979 against the pro-Western Shah Reza Pahlavi, or for a change within the framework of the theocratic regime, preserving it, as appears to have happened with regard to the so-called Bolivarian regime in Venezuela, as both are considered the best at playing the role of gendarme against the proletariat.

>>2683998
Yeah I hope these are the twilight years of islamic politics.

>>2649080
Wrong. Iran is not monopolist capitalist power. Iran is free revolutionary socialist third-world power. Iran's economy is transitional socialist
https://en.mfa.ir/portal/viewpage/3997/constitution
Article 43 [Principles] The economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with its objectives of achieving the economic independence of the society, uprooting poverty and deprivation, and fulfilling human needs in the process of development while preserving human liberty, is based on the following criteria: the provision of basic necessities for all citizens: housing, food, clothing, hygiene, medical treatment, education, and the necessary facilities for the establishment of a family; ensuring conditions and opportunities of employment for everyone, with a view to attaining full employment; placing the means of work at the disposal of everyone who is able to work but lacks the means, in the form of cooperatives, through granting interest-free loans or recourse to any other legitimate means that neither results in the concentration or circulation of wealth in the hands of a few individuals or groups, nor turns the government into a major absolute employer. These steps must be taken with due regard for the requirements governing the general economic planning of the country at each stage of its growth; the plan for the national economy must be structured in such a manner that the form, content, and hours of work of every individual will allow him sufficient leisure and energy to engage, beyond his professional endeavor, in intellectual, political, and social activities leading to all-round development of his self, to take active part in leading the affairs of the country, improve his skills, and to make full use of his creativity; respect for the right to choose freely an occupation; refraining from compelling anyone to engage in a particular job; and preventing the exploitation of another's labor; the prohibition of infliction of harm and loss upon others, monopoly, hoarding, usury, and other illegitimate and evil practices; the prohibition of extravagance and wastefulness in all matters related to the economy, including consumption, investment, production, distribution, and services; the utilization of and the training of skilled personnel in accordance with the developmental needs of the country's economy; prevention of foreign economic domination over the country's economy: emphasis on increase of agricultural, livestock, and industrial production in order to satisfy public needs and to make the country self-sufficient and free from dependence.

Article 44 [Sectors] The economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is to consist of three sectors: state, cooperative, and private, and is to be based on systematic and sound planning. The state sector is to include all large-scale and mother industries, foreign trade, major minerals, banking, insurance, power generation, dams, and large-scale irrigation networks, radio and television, post, telegraph and telephone services, aviation, shipping, roads, railroads and the like; all these will be publicly owned and administered by the State. The cooperative sector is to include cooperative companies and enterprises concerned with production and distribution, in urban and rural areas, in accordance with Islamic criteria. The private sector consists of those activities concerned with agriculture, animal husbandry, industry, trade, and services that supplement the economic activities of the state and cooperative sectors. Ownership in each of these three sectors is protected by the laws of the Islamic Republic, in so far as this ownership is in conformity with the other articles of this chapter, does not go beyond the bounds of Islamic law, contributes to the economic growth and progress of the country and does not harm society. The scope of each of these sectors as well as the regulations and conditions governing their operation, will be specified by law.

>>2684449
>Islam differs sharply from communism. Whereas we respect private property, communism advocates the sharing of all things – including wives and homosexuals.

>God had created both private property and society, society should be formed of a hierarchy of mutually dependent strata (qeshreha)." The poor should not be envious of the rich, and the rich should be grateful to God, avoid any displays of wealth and make generous charitable contributions to the poor.



https://www.iranoilgas.com/companies/listforeign

>>2684459
>One of the topics which needs be recalled here is that Islam does not approve of tyrannical capitalism, which tends to deprive the oppressed and downtrodden masses. On the contrary, it sharply condemns it in the Book and so do the traditions. They consider ii counter to social justice, although certain half-witted people who are uninformed about the Islamic government and political issues in an Islamic state have somehow pretended and still persist in their writings and in their lectures that Islam advocates uncontrolled capitalism and private ownership, and with such interpretations of the Islamic dictates they have marred the brilliant visage of Islam, thereby paving the way for the invasion against Islam by malevolent people and for intimating that an Islamic government is a government like capitalist governments of the West, such as the United States, England and other plunderers of the West, and there are others who, relying on the judgment of such silly people, or perhaps maliciously and without bothering to check with true Islamicists, they are fighting Islam. Islam is rather a moderate system of government which recognizes private ownership only to a level and allowing it only within bounds, the implementation of which system in its true form will ensure the turning of the wheels of a healthy economy which is required for a healthy political system.

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tfw real socialism is when you don't like "crony capitalism"

>>2684610
This meme was approved by Allah (the OG libertarian)

>>2684571
I'm a Muslim and I never read any mention of capitalism in the Quran. However, Islamists mostly backed by gulf money, invented le Islamic economics less than a century ago and it is condemned as liberalism by every non-state sponsored Muslim economist and Imam.

You seem to be confused

>>2684618
Wrong. Islam forbids exploitation. Iran is a revolutionary Islamic People's Democratic Dictatorship. That is why working peoples support Iran Revolution and imperialist speak ill of it


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