Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism

By Tim Anderson

In its drive for a “new middle east’ the great power is moving against every single independent state in the oil-rich region. One by one they are being set up for destruction.

In its ideological war imperialism tries to legitimise itself with human rights claims: the protection of civilian populations and women; its targets are “dictatorships’.

Anyone with a little history would recall that the empire itself, not that long ago, actually set up or backed a large number of subordinate military dictatorships: for example in South Korea, pre-revolutionary Cuba, Iran, Indonesia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Haiti, Uruguay, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Egypt. They can’t be referring to these.

So who or what are these new “dictatorships’?

They are the independent, or semi-independent, post-colonial states, almost always with civil and elected governments, which have simply managed to achieve and maintain some political will outside imperial grand strategy.