2022-05-28 19:32:13
What do these developments, and the inability of the Iranian right (of both its pro-IR and anti-IR factions) to provide any solutions to them, mean for the left in Iran and our comrades internationally?
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For our comrades around the world, it means that anti-sanction and anti-war activism alone is not enough. The Iranian proletariat is merely one of many in the third world which have shown great revolutionary potential. As many have before, I propose that the main way for the advancement of the international communist movement is redevelopment of theoretical and organizational bonds as we saw in the Internationals of the past. The left is today more fragmented than ever. In the West, since the events of May ‘68, much of the left intelligentsia has completely moved to the realm of abstraction and academic work, inaccessible to the vast majority of society, straying the left towards the politically castrated fetish of political identity without material application.4 On the other hand, the old left, clinging to the stagnant Soviet Union, failed to respond to the radical changes brought about through the neoliberal restructuring of society and to attract progressive movements of its time to its side. The only way past this is to renew political mergers: between academia and radical political organization; the radical movements of all nations; and most importantly of all, between the left and the working class. Today, Iran is taking its turn in the dialogue. For a long time now, Iran–like much of the third world–has been merely listening. Now it’s speaking up. Our hope is that our comrades all around the world will listen and support us: In hope of a revived unity between radicals of all nations fighting for a just world.
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