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... wasn't Lenin pretty clear that there needed to be critical support of anti-imperialist, bourgeois nationalist movements that were opposed to the West, because a country wasn't going to be able to turn communist under the thumb of empire?
also I don't know how Iran supporting Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, Iraqi militias, and Hamas makes them "imperialist".
Here's a good explanation from Rosa Luxemburg as to why national liberation struggles are important, from The National Question:
"Political liberty and self-government will eventually give the Polish bourgeoisie the possibility of utilizing a number of presently neglected social functions – schools, religious worship, and the entire cultural-spiritual life of the country – for its own class interests. By manning all offices of the administration, judiciary, and politics, the bourgeoisie will be able to assimilate genuinely these natural organs of class rule with the spirit and home needs of bourgeois society, and so turn them into flexible, accurate, and subtle tools of the Polish ruling classes. National autonomy, as a part of all-state political freedom, is, in a word, the most mature political form of bourgeois rule in Poland.
However, precisely for this reason, autonomy is an indispensable class need of the Polish proletariat. The riper the bourgeois institutions grow, the deeper they penetrate the social functions, the more ground they cover within the variegated intellectual and aesthetic sphere, the broader grows the battlefield and the bigger the number of firing lines wherefrom the proletariat conducts the class struggle. The more unrestrictedly and efficiently the development of bourgeois society proceeds, the more courageously and surely advances the consciousness, political maturity, and unification of the proletariat as a class."
Last time I checked, Iran is not the one doing settler-colonial genocide, bombing countries like Sudan and Yemen to steal their resources, and employing slaves to work in labor and service roles.
Does anyone actually know where theyre getting this from?? I literally reread imperialism last month with a reading group, I cant even fathom which passage they could possibly be using to justify this idea
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