Your posture reveals a deeply authoritarian bent, one inherited from statist dictatorships and reinforced by anti-political habits of geopolitical thinking. It claims to oppose domination while reproducing domination at the level of interpretation, denying agency to the oppressed whenever it disrupts your comfort. This amounts to a catastrophic theoretical failure. A critique of imperialism that refuses to analyze non-Western authoritarianism becomes analytically incoherent. It reproduces the state-centric logic it claims to oppose, mistaking opposition to U.S. power for emancipation itself. Violence becomes excusable when it is rhetorically anti-Western. Resistance becomes romanticized without reference to its social content. Domination becomes tolerable so long as it wears the correct ideological costume. Your so-called anti-imperialism then functions as an identity that polices discourse, disciplines dissent, and forecloses solidarity across inconvenient lines. The result is orthodoxy.
If you genuinely oppose genocide, authoritarianism, and oppression in all their forms, abandon the childish comfort of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." That slogan amounts to abdication. It sacrifices principle for alignment, coherence for convenience, and real human beings for the illusion of geopolitical clarity. A Left that cannot stand with the oppressed has already forfeited its claim to emancipation.
Open letter to the anti imperialist Left: To those on the Left who speak fluently of genocide, apartheid, and colonial domination, this letter is addressed to you. tripleampersand.org/open-letter-... By Sirantos Fotopoulos #authoritarianLeft #ThirdWorldism #campism
