I strongly disagree with the text. I understand it as the author doesn’t want the people of Iran to liberate themselves from tyranny, because then they would be controlled by US which is also tyrannic. But not supporting people liberating themselves because one feels like they know better than the people seems just like the imperialist logic, just reversed. What are your thoughts? Does the text reflect common opinion among anarchists?
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You gotta be like 10 years old to support the attack on Iran. They always frame these invasions as saving the “protestors”. That’s why they fund the protesters.
Anybody who has any knowledge of history: Libya, Iraq, Chile, Vietnam, etc, etc ,etc… will realize that the “liberation” of Iran is a huge pile of imperial shit.
Why are “anarchists” supporting an imperial invasion led by an overt fascist? It’s pretty wild the power of propaganda.
Is this your first time at the rodeo or do you seriously think it’ll be different this time?
“protestors”
That’s why they fund the protesters.
Here we can see a USian, from the comfort of their native Oklahoma, smugly implying that the browns have no agency and no mind of their own. After all, the “”“analysis”“” of a white Australian woman is necessarily superior to that of those living there who, obviously, did not consider the ramifications of their uprising, which is fake and led by CIA paid actors.
A very reductive, contrarian way of thinking. “The US is bad, therefore anything the US opposes is good, actually”
For these people, everything is black or white. There is only the evil US plus its allies, and its heroic enemies.
Campist shit. The current Iranian government is fundamentally opposed to any progressive and liberating ideas. They don’t even pretend otherwise like some nominally socialist states did. The only argument against an outside intervention would be that a stable situation where people can mostly live their lives is at least in the short run preferable to destruction and war. But with the latest mass killing of protestors that idea is pretty much dead, even if they manage to turn it into a new graveyard peace.
Edit: the way the article is written, including specific terms, makes it unlikely that this was written by an actual anarchist and is rather an attempt at entryism of some MLs.
The only argument against an outside intervention
There are many arguments against an imperial invasion: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Chile, Venezuela, etc, etc etc. Every single one of these massacres was done for the “benefit” of those invaded.
the latest mass killing of protestors
Please don’t recycle fake imperial propaganda. The mass killings will come with the imperial invasion as usual.
https://the307.substack.com/p/how-atrocity-propaganda-manufactures
Please don’t recycle fake campist propaganda. Even the Iranian government itself talks about more than 3000 people killed.
To be blunt, I don’t give a fuck about her Australian ass trying to whitesplain shit. She has no right to speak over Iranian comrades; those who actually live through, and capably analyze the events occurring in their country.
