Pro-Western campism? Yeahh.

 

Pro-Western campism? Yeahh.

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Iranians, Kurds and other eastern leftists and communists (including their Greek comrades, since Greece is not a "normal" western country), and most western leftists, despite the honorable efforts of internationalist Marxists (such as Oakland socialists, Michael K. and others) and some anarchists, do not want to show solidarity with Ukraine's struggle, because they consider its struggle part of an imperialist war in which Ukraine is simply a proxy of western imperialism.

I was deeply saddened to see that Avakian's neo-communist movement, whom I deeply respect as a person, expressed the same views.

Also disappointing, apart from Boric (Chile), was the attitude of the Latin American left movement in general, sometimes downright miserable, like the attitude of the Cubans.

I am sorry, but while I remain steadfast, faithful, unwavering in favor of the Iranian and Kurdish movement, I love them, at the same time I am obliged to declare to them, expressing many people in the progressive political factor of the west, that the struggle for the hard progressive liberal but also essentially leftist core of the West, imposes, now dictates, a frontal alliance with the Western world, which has and will have important ideological and political characteristics that will not leave any "normal" ideological leftist position unscathed.

In the final analysis, this war, within the west as well as the west against the new authoritarian anti-western expansionism, is our war, so even if it is not of interest to you, it is of interest to us.

In this war we will also defend the "bad boys" of the West in the Middle East, without perhaps being fair as pure ideology dictates. You know who we're talking about.

Long live Ukraine!

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Zionism was a peculiar colonial project, which, although it confirms the general negative definition/determination of the colonial situation, at the same time negates this generalization, not in the sense that it also contains positive elements, but in the sense that it was the colonial project of a people persecuted for thousands of years..

Were not the first utopias also colonial ventures?

The fact that the colonies had a "bad end" does not solve their enigma as post-colonial ideologies claim.

The Zionists were not Boers.

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Anyone who talks about "world Zionism" is anti-Semitic and has the same ideas as the Hitlerites. Anyone who speaks against Zionism in general is not always anti-Semitic, but if he does not clarify that Zionism does not mean anything special compared to any colonial nationalism, he is also anti-Semitic. 

Also, even in these contexts, Zionism did not begin as an ordinary nationalist colonial venture but as the forced colonial venture of a persecuted people, who are still hated by all overt or covert anti-Semites. 

The Zionists were not Boers, Zionism is not inherently racist, there are many versions of it, non-racist and racist.

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Your first attitude and reaction to the Ukrainian issue pushes us out of the common ideological space.

When I saw a leading figure of the Hekmatists, adopting the attitude of a pro-Russian Italian trade union, which was sabotaged the shipment of weapons to the struggling Ukraine (this union participated in a conference of unions in Syria organized by the Assad regime), something began to worry me very much. 

We're talking about the Hekmatists in Iran, the communist faction considered by their inner-left enemies in the Iranian left to be too neutral towards the West, perhaps pro-Western, even "pro-Zionist" (they're not, imagine what are they that they talk so).

The more objective, generally correct attitude of some Marxists like Michael K., the socialists of Oakland, some anarchists, the correct attitude of Borich (Chile), kept me in reserve for a long time, I postponed the ideological and political rupture again.

But I can't fool myself anymore. 

The vast majority of the left and anarchism, kept and keeps a neutral (at best, or hypocritically) or a pro-Russian stance.

I cannot base my adherence to a global ideological faction on the positions of the correct stance of a small ideological minority within it.

I hand over my ideological police identity card to the competent left-wing authorities.

Now, the honest struggle is for the defense of freedom equality and democracy, but also for the defense of some well meaning Western political and ideological institutions, beyond their narrow leftist terms, and such a struggle it surely will be, too, in many aspects of also a dirty game.

 

 Ιωάννης Τζανάκος