Yes, this Campism is a product of the Popular Front strategy that presupposes an alliance with the national bourgeoisie is an anti-imperialist position.
This is the fundamental contradiction with the elaboration of the Permanent Revolution by Bronstein/Trotsky. The uneven and combined development from colonial feudalism to Socialism is possible by way of the nascent working-class. The failure of such a Popular Front in Syria currently is the anguish of such Campists, usually found in the ML sphere. The result of such collaboration is capitulation to the Liberal notions of stagiest development. From: marxmail@groups.io <marxmail@groups.io> On Behalf Of Marv Gandall via groups.io On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM, Mark Baugher wrote: * Post-stalinist campism. Certain political currents, either emerging from the Communist Parties, or influenced by them, maintain an outlook in which the world is divided up into an imperialist camp and an anti-imperialist one. The former is identified as the United States, and the latter by any existing state or regime whose geopolitical or domestic interests at any moment appear to conflict with those of the US (Iran, India, Assad, Maduro, Russia, China). This political outlook, through its Stalinist heritage, has a certain purchase within the left social democratic currents referenced above. This is not the case with several MLists on marxmail. I'm not sure that this is a heritage thing at all. I think we find similar campist views among Trotskyists and post-Trotskyists. What the so-called campists and anti-campists have in common on this list and outside of it is the belief that the current global order is "multipolar", with China and Russia as major challengers to US hegemony. The two camps differ only in their implacaable hostility or uncritical support of China and Russia. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35554): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35554 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111412499/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
