Re: [Marxism] Iran is not Venezuela

[Baba Aye <baba.aye@xxxxxxxxx>]

Waist Line writes:
What is taking place in Iran is called the unfolding of the proletarian
revolution and the historic collapse and defeat of the political middle

I do quite agree with the thrust of WL's analysis which  I see as grasping a
movement towards social change by the popular masses in any contention of
revolutionary proportions they engage in with the forces of the status quo
and that this movement might however not be (most times actually does at the
very least *start*s as anything but) a clearcut assault against the Winter
Palace talk less of with the inscription "workers of the world unite" on its
banner.

Defining the character of a revolution, I would think though, goes beyond
identifying this latent dynamis in it. Otherwise every revolution in a
post-feudal society would have amounted to being "*the* proletarian
revolution".

It might also in my view be rather optimistic to conclude at this stage that
whatever sort of revolution it boils down to would amount to the political
middle's "historic (!) collapse and defeat". It is not impossible that this
could be a resultant of the balance of forces that will emerge on the other
side of what has commenced. Nothing however *necessarily* suggests this as a
definite probability. I would think that on the contrary, even the clerical
establishment and the current symbols of the present upsurge (who
fundamentally are elements within it) would find it to their interest (not
to talk of the meddlesome interests of Western imperialism which would not
stay off the turf in this trial of strenght and collission of forces) to
strengthen a 'political middle' as a means for dousing the fires of a
revolution which still seeks to define itself.

Baba Aye

Global Labour University, Unicamp
solidarityandstruggle.blogspot.com
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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the
point is to change it." - Karl Marx (1845),
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