To the contrary, a "pacifist" (in the sense of being opposed to the
right of the imperialists to make war) position is the only one that
principled Marxists, radicals and progressives can put forward. As far
as "rearguard defence of national sovereignty" is concerned, I have no
idea what this means and, moreover, and am afraid to learn more.
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The political doctrine of Karl Marx appears to have come full circle. His banner was very simple: "Workers of the World Unite," you have nothing to lose but your chains and a world to win. And "the workingman (workers) have no country."
In the previous era of development of commodity production, when the industrial infrastructure was still expanding quantitatively and qualitatively and the direct colonial system was being shattered, political doctrine embraced national sovereignty - many times at the expense of "class factors."
There is something very rotten about this new slogan of "anti-hegemony," which runs one into support of one section of the capitalist class or another. >From within the most imperial of all countries the issue is the capitalist class, their policies, methods of rule and vision of the world. Their private possession of socially necessary means of production and their political structures to enforce this rule is the problem.
It a new era.
