Re: [Marxism] Monthly Review's past articles on Iran

[Dogan Gocmen <dgn.gcmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The problem we are expressing and the point we seem to miss in this thread
probably this: there is no third front which we may support without any
remorse and difficulty. We had the same problem with the invasion of Iraq.
Lenin asserts in his book on imperialism that in the age of imperialism no
country, even most developed ones, is save against imperialist invasion and
occupation. So in the near future the occupation of independent countries by
imperialist states is going to be a 'normal' situation. Many of these
countries are run by corrupt regimes and dictators. The point for the left
is therefore how to coup with this situation. We certainly do not want to
support imperialist occupation. But neither to back corrupt regimes. Now,
what is to be done in this situation? This is the practical question we have
to answer. Sometimes ago after the occupation of Iraq South African
communist leader  Z. Pallo Jordan suggested that we have to establish an
international of people against imperialism. As long as we have not
established such a front we will have this problem and continue discussing
this issue. I discussed some of these matters in my paper 'The Problem of
"Consciousness" in Class Relations and Class Clashes  in the Twenty First
Century', which most of you will unfortunately not be able to read as it is
in Turkish.

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Dogan GÃcmen
(http://dogangocmen.wordpress.com/)
Author of The Adam Smith Problem:
Reconciling Human Nature and Society in
The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations, I. B. Tauris,
London&New York 2007
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