Syria and trying to efface the facts - briefly
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| March 2100 |
If we leave aside some unconsciously made assessments and discourses, assessments made on Syria hiding behind "Leftist mask " can not exceed and shall not exceed to be chauvinist and bourgeois nationalist falsifications trying to conceal and efface the history of the war in Syria. The arguments such as " the war in Syria " is an imperialist war between great powers ", that it is a " reactionary war" and thus, "it does not concern us", has no bearing with Marxist Leninist Left even remotely, and can not have any.
As now even the imperialist press and broadcast media admits, the imperialist aggression started nine years ago, on March 15, 2011 by ISIS , FSA and other jihadist, fundamentalist gangs organized and fed by the US, Israel and Turkey.
Within three years, regions with oil the resources holding the Syrian economy on its feet, passed in to the hands of ISIS with the direct aid of imperialists. Aleppo and Idlib and in the south near Israel border regions passed into the hands of other jihadists. By 2014, US imperialism had already taken the military control of the region where oil resources and oil transportation routes took place. Within these occupied regions a "beheading, enslaving, chaining women Sharia system" was established .
So the ongoing war has been a war between the Syrian government and the US, Israel , TR imperialist bloc and their fundamentalist gangs. As far as the Syria is concerned this war waged against the most reactionary feudal structures and imperialist aggression is a just, progressive and anti- imperialist war. In where Marxist Leninist determining power does not exist, one who does not prefer capitalism against Feudalism, bourgeois republic against the sharia regime, can not even be a bourgeois democrat, never mind to be a ML revolutionary , but only a reactionary.
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| June 2014 |
Socialist who are aware of the fact that "every bourgeois democracy is in essence a bourgeois dictatorship " never been afraid of saying, and never will be, that they sanction the republican-democratic bourgeois order in preference to an autocratic serf-owning bourgeois order.. " Lenin, The Revolutionary-Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Peasantry " We say " says Stalin, " in so far as the democratic republic destroys feudal system it is good and we fight for it, but in so far as it strengthens bourgeois system it is bad, and therefore we fight against it.. "" Anarchism or socialism
Thus the imperialist political rhetoric , such as the Syrian " regime", " Assad regime ", " fascist regime " , are either chauvinistic or bourgeois nationalist discourses which aims at Syria's just, progressive anti- imperialist war against fundamentalist feudal reaction and against aggressive , invading , predatory , annexationist imperialism as an unjust, reactionary, imperialist war.
"Under the conditions of Imperialist oppression " says Stalin," the revolutionary character of a national movement does not necessarily presuppose the existence of proletarian elements in the movement, the existence of a revolutionary or a republican programme of the movement, the existence of a democratic basis of the movement. The struggle that the Emir of Afghanistan is waging for the independence of Afghanistan is objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates, for it weakens, disintegrates and undermines imperialism; whereas the struggle waged by such "desperate" democrats and "socialists," "revolutionaries" and republicans .. during the imperialist war was a reactionary struggle, for its result was the embellishment, the strengthening, the victory, of imperialism." Foundation of Leninism
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| Ağust 2015 |
By August 2015 country's great majority of the land was invaded by the imperialists and their gangs where, chaining women, sale of them as slave, decapitating shooting, the practice of Sharia laws became dominant and Syria was facing a complete defeat. It is exactly a month later , ie, four years after the imperialist attack started , on September 2015, with the invitation of the Syrian government Russia militarily involved in Syrian war against the fundamentalists and imperialist occupation.
Together with the involvement of Russia and her smart policy, the imperialists' and their proxy fundamentalist gangs' gradual decline began. The decline of US and the panic among fundamentalist mobs, forced the Islamic fascist power in Turkey, to double play and strategic swaying in order to get the most possible lion's share from the imperialist looting for her own finance capital. This wobbling, at the point reached, placed TR in a situation of " a trapped mouse between two cats " .
The bourgeois nationalist justification for the assessment of the current war as " imperialists war " is based on Russia's being another "side" in this war. Participation of another imperialist country in to the ranks of a just, progressive anti- imperialist war being waged against the aggressor, occupier, annexationist, looters does not change the context of an anti- imperialist war. Lenin in his work " The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution" points|:" Junius... says that in the imperialist era every national war against an imperialist Great Power leads to intervention of a rival imperialist Great Power. Every national war is thus turned into an imperialist war. But that argument is wrong, too. ."
Marxist Leninists are required to use the concepts in a way that will not confuse the masses. As Lenin noted " a war between imperialist Great Powers.. or in alliance with the Great Powers, is an imperialist war." A war against imperialist, i.e., oppressing, powers by oppressed nations is a genuine national war. " "Defence of the fatherland" in a war waged by an oppressed nation against a foreign oppressor is not a deception "" To fall into negation of wars really waged for liberating nations is to present the worst possible caricature of Marxism. "..... Rejection of "defence of the fatherland" in a democratic war, i.e., rejecting participation in such a war, is an absurdity that has nothing in common with Marxism. " A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism
The present war in Syria, US and TR and allies represent the imperialist aggressors, so the war they wage is unjust and reactionary. As for Syrian government this war is a just, progressive and anti-imperialist war waged against feudalism and imperialist aggression, annexation, looting, plunder. For the socialists of aggressive imperialist countries "defense of fatherland" is invalid, stand to be taken should be a " defeatist "one, otherwise it would be a chauvinistic stand. The "defense of fatherland" is valid only for the Syrian people who are waging an anti- imperialist war. In Lenin's words "any socialist would wish the oppressed, dependent and unequal states victory over the oppressor, slave-holding and predatory 'Great' Powers." A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism
What the chauvinists and bourgeois nationalists trying to efface is not only the history of war in Syria but ML concept of wars, its context and the correct attitude to be taken. Not even one revolutionary ML, without betraying Marxism Leninism, assesses the war in Syria as a war " between imperialist great powers ". In reality, those who make such assessment prejudiced by their ethnicity, have already been betraying Marxism Leninism with their ethnic subjectivity .
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March 3, 2020
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