15 thesis on anti-imperialism

by Nat Winn

15 thesis on anti-imperialism

1. The people of Iran, Syria, Yemen, Russia, China, etc. are not my enemies.
2. All the above countries have the right to defend themselves against the aggression of more powerful countries and the proxies of more powerful countries.
3. The governments of these countries must act as they do in order to socially reproduce the societies of these countries.
4. Imperialism is a total world system.
5. The total world system is anarchistically divided into blocks of capital that produce and socially reproduce for their own immediate interests and not for the interests of society as a whole.
6. The United States and the G7 represent one bloc of capital, currently the most powerful bloc.
7. China is an emerging imperialist power.
8. Countries like Russia, Iran, Syria,Turkey, etc. represent regional powers that contend for more power within a total imperialist system, again, marked by competing capitalist blocs.
9. Communists are against the total imperialist system and not merely one or another competing imperialist bloc.
10. Communists struggle for the military defeats of their own home countries in order to ripen the opportunity for revolution where they are.
11. Point 10 may be different for Communists in countries that are defending their self-determination.
12. The anarchy of capitalist production marked by a system of competing blocs of capital, in fact, creates some of the main opportunities for Communists for revolutionary advances.
13. To make such revolutionary advances Communists must maintain their own autonomy and initiative, even in countries fighting for their self-determination from more powerful countries.
14. The main responsibility of Communists in imperialist countries is to foster the defeat of the home imperialist country militarily and work to ripen the opportunities for revolutionary advance.
15. On an international scale the goal and responsibility of Communists is to end imperialism as a total world system, meaning more than only U.S. imperialism, but all imperialist powers – whether old and consolidated or emerging or regional powers.