Why dont we support the Colour revolution?

[Little Bobby Hutton]

In iran last year, riots protests and marches turned Tehran into a setting for a deadly cat and mouse game between the protestors, who range from capies,capie liberals to full blown marxists, yet for some reason some marxists supported the religeous fundamentalist regime, which blocks trade union rights, sees sex change surgery as a cure for gayness and stones women who dare to fuck more than one guy.

Surely the people of Iran would be better under capitalism, as bad as it is, than live in a throwback to the times when religeon dominated the lives of the people and made capitalism seem revolutionary.

It seems totally moronic to support Islamic fundamentalism in Iran, while condemning christian supremacy in the USA, i would rather not defend iran from USA imperialism, let it become a neo colony, then let the Iranian people rise up and overthrow the yankee foreign interests and their national bourgesie, wouldn't you?

[rednordman]

Simple answer. Colour revolutions are astonishingly anti-communist. The course of history has also proven that they do not supply the answers, despite how progressive they may seem. Iran does have a shit regime, just we need a genuine marxist or even social-democratic uprising, not a USA worshipping one.

[Little Bobby Hutton]

But the iranian comrades are too oppressed under the current regime, under a capitalist regime it would be far easier to organise and agitate, also the regime aint too pro communist yet or aint you noticed

[Wolf Larson]

You need to take the ongoing US capitalist agenda of containment into account. Iran is one of the few nations, one of the last, which will support socialistic nations in the western hemisphere like Venezuela. If Iran is put under US economic control, which is what ALL of the color revolutions the CIA starts are about, then socialism taking hold in South America is going to be a pipe dream.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment

[Crux]

Uhm point one Iran is a capitalist country. But that doesn't mean the Mousavi-wing of the regime should be supported. Support the movement against the entire regime instead.

[Sam_b]

i would rather not defend iran from USA imperialism, let it become a neo colony, then let the Iranian people rise up and overthrow the yankee foreign interests and their national bourgesie, wouldn't you?

Wow, just wow. Replace 'Iran' with 'Iraq' and lets see how many types of wrong this statement is. I would rather defend Iran against USA imperialism, to stop potentialy hundreds of thousands of deaths and to not further entrench Western dominance in the Middle East, wouldn't you?

[Outinleftfield]

Revolutions are like rolling dice. Remember in the 1979 Revolution there were some far left groups, like the Tudeh Party. Anyone proposing anything radically different enough from the status quo jumps on board when there's a revolution and there's often in fighting between these groups even after the ruling power has been defeated.

We should support revolution in Iran. We just might win. Whose to say the capitalists will win if there's a revolution in Iran?

[Red Commissar]

I wouldn't have so much of a problem with these groups, even if they were not of our ideology, if it were not for the fact most of these groups get support from pro-Monarchist factions in the exiled Iranian community.



We should support revolution in Iran. We just might win. Whose to say the capitalists will win if there's a revolution in Iran?

A lot of the radicals during the revolution against the Shah reasoned the same thing. It did not end well for them.