The US-Israel war on Iran
The US-Israel war on Iran; how the interests of aggressive imperialism, in the name of "communism" and democracy are served , especially in Türkiye.
After the attacks of the US-Israel, which was a declaration of war against Iran, the number of propaganda based on the usual emotional exploitation against Iran, suddenly mushroomed on social sites under the name of “communist” by many parties, organizations and individuals. These are continuing intensively on social media as the repetition of the usual, distorted theories that are disconnected from their content, sloganized, and sound nice to the ears of the petty bourgeois. Some, as always, are disconnected from their content, do not fit the current concrete situation, do not fit the existing concrete conditions, do not offer a real, concrete, logical and applicable alternative practice, in essence, they call for “passivity” against the imperialist attack, which is service to imperialism, while others openly call for “uprising” that is completely disconnected from the concrete reality of Iran, which is in line with and will serve the imperialists’ very purpose of “regime change” and “establishing a puppet regime” . There is an expression which says “the sound of a drum sounds nice from afar. “These types of pseudo-left "puppets" are making such calls from afar, either to get a few cents from imperialist organizations or to satisfy their own petty bourgeois egos, at the cost of massacring and destroying the minority peoples within that country by starting uprising. Unfortunately, these distorted theories and calls are widely defended and repeated by petty bourgeois who have little theoretical knowledge and whose knowledge is based entirely on rote learning .
The primary purpose of the US-Israel attack on Iran ( as they have repeatedly stated) is to change the existing politically independent regime of Iran in order to establish a puppet government that is politically dependent on them. They have already started provocations in this regard through their puppets in Iran. The main and fundamental purpose of the US-Israel is to establish a puppet government in Iran and to instigate new wars in that region in order to strengthen the ongoing conflicts with the Russia-China and North Korea bloc , and to extend the West Asia-Middle East front to the Asian front. The European front has been largely left for EU-NATO with the division of labor between the aggressive imperialists. The East and South East Asia front is being tried to be formed as the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. In other words, the problem is not only the “mullahs in Iran” and the war started with them , but also the practice of creating the basis for new and worldwide wars. The question is either to serve aggressive, belligerent imperialism with distorted theories that serve to dreamers with unrealizable dreams and imperialists , or to take a stand in the ranks of the peace-loving forces and in their interests in the struggle between the aggressive and peace-loving forces, in the context of concrete facts. As Stalin emphasized ; “There are aggressive forces that are thirsty for war… If the warmongers succeed in deceiving the masses of the people, in deceiving them and drawing them into a new world war, then war may become inevitable… That is why the broad campaign for the preservation of peace is now of first-class importance as a means of exposing the criminal intrigues of the warmongers .” (1)
Now let's come to their
"prescriptive" theories that are suitable for every situation and
even when they do this, they do not know the content of the theories they use or
used in their distorted form. As Lenin often emphasized, " Wars
are extremely diverse, different, complex things. They cannot be
approached with a general pattern, a concrete analysis of each war must
be made." (2)
On the arguments that they both are the same , it is not our concern
The distortion of theories unconsciously
and/or consciously and their use for their own
nationalist ambitions and the interests of the imperialists they
support is not a newly implemented tactic. The distortion that
is related to our subject and is constantly used is the conflict
between “reactionary classes and imperialism”. Lenin’s theories on
this subject are divided into two; within a nation-state and
within the framework of a nation-state’s struggle against imperialism .
Cunning puppets mix these two together and use whichever suits their
interests in a given situation . For example, within a nation-state;
they use the assessment that “ We will not support the struggle of the
reactionary classes against imperialism ; We will not support the uprising of
the reactionary classes against imperialism and capitalism ” (3) to
justify their betrayal on imperialist
attack to any country. However, Lenin’s assessment is about the attitude to be
taken in the struggle of the reactionary, feudal forces against capitalism and
monopoly capitalism within a nation-state.
An imperialist attack on an
independent country (as long as that country is not an imperialist proxy
country and is not preparing to attack as a proxy, or is not attacking)
triggers that country's "independence" struggle. In
other words, its struggle against the imperialist country becomes a struggle
for independence.
Quoting Lenin on the attitude of
Marxist-Leninists when it comes to a nation-state against the imperialist,
Stalin says; " The revolutionary character of a
national movement under conditions of imperialist oppression
does not necessarily presuppose the presence of proletarian
elements in the movement, the presence of a revolutionary or
republican program of the movement, the presence of a democratic basis of the
movement. The struggle waged by the Emir of Afghanistan for the independence of
Afghanistan, despite the monarchist views of the Emir and his associates,
is objectively a revolutionary struggle because it weakens,
disintegrates and undermines imperialism " (4)
Stalin's assessment following the
above quotation strikingly describes these claims and their claimants as
reactionaries.
"For the same reasons, the
struggle waged by the Egyptian merchants and bourgeois
intellectuals for Egypt's independence is
objectively a revolutionary struggle, despite the bourgeois origin and
bourgeois title of the leaders of the Egyptian national movement, despite
their opposition to socialism ;
"While the
struggle waged by the British "Labour" Government to preserve Egypt's
dependent position is, for the same reason , a reactionary struggle,
despite its proletarian origin and the proletarian title of the members of the
government, despite their being "in favour" of
socialism ." (5)
In other words, Iran's war
against the US-Israel genocidal, belligerent, aggressive imperialism is
a war of independence. As Lenin and Stalin defined it , it is
"objectively a revolutionary struggle. In such a struggle, let
alone remaining silent and neutral, calls for "revolt" in the country
that is waging this struggle are calls for imperialist collaboration.
In this specific case, if
we take into account the fact that the aggressive war against Iran is the precursor
to a war that will be spread in that region, in Stalin's words; "The
policy of non-intervention means turning a blind eye to aggression ,
giving free rein to war and thus turning the war into a world war .
The policy of non-intervention reveals enthusiasm, a desire not to
hinder the treacherous deeds of the aggressors ." (5)
Concrete reality proves that the
approach and attitude of some well-known organizations and parties* (and
of course some individuals) is exactly the "desire not to hinder
the treacherous deeds of the aggressors " that Stalin emphasized.
On the calls for uprisin and revolution in Iran
Unless there are subjective
and objective conditions to make a successful revolution in
Iran , talking about an "uprising" or taking the attitude that
it does not concern us has nothing to do with revolutionism, let alone
communism. " A people's revolution, "
says Lenin, "cannot be planned in advance. An uprising can be
planned if those who prepare it have influence over the masses and can
correctly estimate the situation ... it must include the necessity of
proclaiming and popularizing the slogans calling the people to an armed
uprising, the formation of a revolutionary army, and the establishment of a
provisional revolutionary government... (8) In order to be
successful , the uprising must be based not on a conspiracy, not
on a party, but on the vanguard... The uprising must be
based on the revolutionary upsurge of the people (the upsurge of the
struggle). The uprising must be based on a turning point in
the history of the rising revolution , when the activity of the
vanguard of the people is at its highest, when the enemy and his ranks are
wavering, and when the ranks of the weak, indecisive, contradictory friends of
the revolution are at their strongest ... These three conditions distinguish
Marxism from Blanquism in posing the problem of the uprising . "(6)
It is clear that the uprising and
revolution cannot be implemented with abstract,
extreme leftist rhetoric , or isolated movements from
the masses . On the contrary, the uprising requires determination of strategic
tactics based on research and analysis . It carries a responsibility
towards the people ; it is not a matter of workers gambling
with their interests and lives and struggling using “abstract”
slogans that do not have their feet on the ground. As Lenin said;
"We Marxists have
always prided ourselves on determining the expediency
of any form of struggle by careful calculation of mass forces and class
relations. We have said that an insurrection is not always
expedient; unless the preconditions for it exist among the
masses, it is a gamble ." (7)
As a result, neither the
claims of remaining neutral in the war launched against Iran with
leftist rhetoric nor the calls for "rebellion" in Iran
(especially by some known bourgeois democratic sources*) have any relevance to
Marxism-Leninism. These are the hypocritical defense of being on the
aggressive, belligerent imperialist side with so-called leftist,
distorted theories. Worse still, they are calls for the
division and massacre of the Iranian people on ethnic and religious
grounds . These calls, especially from abroad, who live far
from this danger, are neither in the interest of the Iranian
people in particular nor of the people in the region in general ,
but in the interest of the imperialists who seek to spread wars both in
the region and in the world .
Erdogan A
June 15, 2025
* What is mentioned here is bourgeois democratic parties and movements such as PJAK that exist in Iran.
Notes.
(1) When is War Not Inevitable?
(2) From Lenin to Inessa Armand
(3) Lenin "Reply to P.
Kievsky" chapter 5, 1916, 'Monism And Dualism'
(4) Stalin, "Foundations of
Leninism
(5) Stalin, Eighteenth Congress
of the CPSU (B), Stenographic Report, 1939
(6) Lenin, Marxism and
Insurrection, Letter to the Central Committee of the RSDLP
(B.)
(7) Lenin, Revolutionary
Wordiness
(8) Lenin, Theory of
Spontaneity,
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