I dunno, maybe some money given to the right people? Maybe eyeballs on the right people? I don’t have a lot to give to anyone. I can barely “manifest” food on my own plate. What’s your point?
My point is that when there’s a foreign backed psychological warfare operation that’s trying to destabilize a regional power that is responsible for giving lethal aid to the only groups that have been able to resist the genocidal Zionist entity, your responsibility as a westerner is to stay really far away from the factions that are attempting to overthrow that government.
If you have absolute 100% certainty that you’re giving material aid to a group who will use it responsibly and not to further the interests of imperialists (knowingly or unknowingly) then I guess it is better than just hoping for the best.
your responsibility as a westerner is to stay really far away from the factions that are attempting to overthrow that government.
I almost agree with this, but what about when we have communists on the ground who are trying to insert themselves into the protests? Why can’t critical support apply here?
Communists can also make bad calls. There are times where communist insurrection has no potential to do something other than enable a takeover of reactionaries even worse than the current ones, and the business of communists should in those cases probably be more oriented toward whatever course of action represents enduring progress in defeating reactionary factions without getting wiped out themselves. If an even more reactionary and vicious government gets installed, is that really going to help Iranian communism?
These periods of unrest are definitely good for agitating on their part, but that doesn’t mean defending the same people Mossad is promoting, and if some self-styled leftist is telling you that their lived experience is that following Mossad’s agenda is a good idea, you should probably not support them except in the lucky circumstance where the consequences of their actions “merely” result in them becoming refugees (who then might need material support to survive).
The reality is that communists have no support in Iran and the Islamic revolution has a majority of support. Iranian Communists can’t take power from a group that has more support than them. The reason any Communists have taken power is because they were taking it from people who were despised by the masses
I can’t make a judgement call on your behalf as to whether those communists a) are what they claim they are b) will be able to do something with that support. Maybe you’re right and it is possible for these protests’ pro-imperialist stance to be contested; or maybe being more cautious is going to turn out to be the correct call when the dust settles. I genuinely don’t know.
I dunno, maybe some money given to the right people? Maybe eyeballs on the right people? I don’t have a lot to give to anyone. I can barely “manifest” food on my own plate. What’s your point?
My point is that when there’s a foreign backed psychological warfare operation that’s trying to destabilize a regional power that is responsible for giving lethal aid to the only groups that have been able to resist the genocidal Zionist entity, your responsibility as a westerner is to stay really far away from the factions that are attempting to overthrow that government.
If you have absolute 100% certainty that you’re giving material aid to a group who will use it responsibly and not to further the interests of imperialists (knowingly or unknowingly) then I guess it is better than just hoping for the best.
I almost agree with this, but what about when we have communists on the ground who are trying to insert themselves into the protests? Why can’t critical support apply here?
Communists can also make bad calls. There are times where communist insurrection has no potential to do something other than enable a takeover of reactionaries even worse than the current ones, and the business of communists should in those cases probably be more oriented toward whatever course of action represents enduring progress in defeating reactionary factions without getting wiped out themselves. If an even more reactionary and vicious government gets installed, is that really going to help Iranian communism?
These periods of unrest are definitely good for agitating on their part, but that doesn’t mean defending the same people Mossad is promoting, and if some self-styled leftist is telling you that their lived experience is that following Mossad’s agenda is a good idea, you should probably not support them except in the lucky circumstance where the consequences of their actions “merely” result in them becoming refugees (who then might need material support to survive).
The reality is that communists have no support in Iran and the Islamic revolution has a majority of support. Iranian Communists can’t take power from a group that has more support than them. The reason any Communists have taken power is because they were taking it from people who were despised by the masses
I can’t make a judgement call on your behalf as to whether those communists a) are what they claim they are b) will be able to do something with that support. Maybe you’re right and it is possible for these protests’ pro-imperialist stance to be contested; or maybe being more cautious is going to turn out to be the correct call when the dust settles. I genuinely don’t know.