Response to the “Unholy” Alliance…Marxism & Islam
Daniel Pipes, the Zionist and imperialist apologist political commentator infamous for his diatribes on the Middle-East and Islam, recently authored an editorial regarding his concern over the growing alliance between Islam and the revolutionary left.
Pipes is correct in his assessment that Marxists share a common enemy in imperialism and Zionism. And while his agenda throughout the piece is undeniably to taint the Left in general and is plagued with out of context quotations and falsehoods, nonetheless it underscores the very important fact of development.
The development of a “Green-Red” alliance is natural when one considers the transition of antagonisms in the imperialist world. No longer does the imperialist bourgeoisie have to rely on exploiting the internal proletariat to drive production and profit, it can do that with the full support of the bourgeois state in a multitude of nations. The growth of imperialism, as a natural tendency of capitalism, has produced a new global antagonism that pits the imperialist countries against the oppressed countries for whom it exploits.
Revolutionary forces in several oppressed countries are waging wars of resistance and national liberation against the imperialists. This is the spark that will set in motion the inevitable weakening of global capitalism. Revolutionary Islam finds itself in the heart of this struggle as it too seeks to weaken the global power of private capital and bourgeois imperialist states.
Islam has fallen under the radar of the imperialists for its ability to organize vast cadres capable of implementing physical and material destruction to imperialist forces and imperialist means of productions. Islamic resistance to the capitalist bourgeois hordes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine are a serious matter for imperialist plunderers. That organized resistance has come under the banner of Islam, and not revolutionary Marxism, doesn’t imply that Marxists ought not to extend critical support to the struggle.
Whatever weakens global capitalism is incontrovertibly good. Forcing the imperialist parasites out of the oppressed world will set the stage for a global crisis in capitalism – destabilizing capital’s ability for massive transfers of wealth from the Third world back to its home country. Forced under such conditions, capital will continue its struggle to accumulate wealth amongst the national proletariat in the current imperialist world, ultimately changing the economic, political and social direction of a reemerging first-world proletariat.
So while important distinctions exist between Islam and Marxism-Leninism, the practical outcomes of such a relationship – manifesting themselves in the weakening and physical destruction of global capitalism – are objectively more important. Ultra-left dogmatists, whose line is inconsistent with a Marxist-Leninist materialist analysis, continue to espouse discontent with any alliance between Islam and Communism. But such dogmatico-revisionism is typically relegated to the First world chauvinists, people who deceive themselves into believing their own liberal metaphysics.