{ "url": "https://11d.im/liens/2026/20260123093746/", "published": "Fri Jan 23 2026 10:04:07 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)", "updated": "Thu Sep 03 2026 15:18:46 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)", "author": { "name": "tk", "url": "https://11d.im" }, "content": "
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Sur &&&, \u00e0 propos du campisme et des prises de position qui en d\u00e9coulent \u00e0 propos des massacres de manifestant\u00b7es qui se soul\u00e8vent actuellement en Iran :

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Your evasion follows from a deliberate theoretical substitution that elevates geopolitical hostility to the United States and Israel above any substantive commitment to emancipation. Your politics collapses into a barren syllogism: if a regime positions itself against Western power, it must therefore be defended, or at minimum shielded from serious critique. Oppression becomes tolerable so long as it is administered by the correct enemy.

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Classic Third Worldist traditions, at their best, insisted on popular agency: peasants, workers, women, the colonized acting against both imperial domination and indigenous ruling classes. Much of the Western Left now performs a hollowed-out caricature: a state-centric geopolitics that treats regimes as theatrical avatars of resistance. In practice, it becomes nationalist fetishism that excuses state violence and, often, embraces it. Culpability with the mass slaughter in Iran also rests squarely on you.

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Any serious engagement with anthropology, political economy, or historical materialism should have inoculated you against this error. Power is plural. Domination belongs to no single civilization or empire. Empires produce violence, and so do revolutionary states, clerical hierarchies, nationalist movements, and bureaucracies that rule in the name of resistance. A politics incapable of holding this simultaneity remains brittle, lazy, and morally bankrupt.

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If you genuinely oppose genocide, authoritarianism, and oppression in all their forms, abandon the childish comfort of \u201cthe enemy of my enemy is my friend.\u201d 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.

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Le texte prend \u00e0 parti et s'emporte dans son \u00e9nervement, mais c'est, il me semble, une bonne critique de la position \u00ab campiste \u00bb qui m'a toujours paru incoh\u00e9rente et difficile \u00e0 saisir \u00e0 cause de son arbitraire d'alliances de pouvoir, qui me paraissent opaque.

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Le texte a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9publi\u00e9, le temps de la r\u00e9daction de cette note.

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On pourrait avoir une lecture similaire concernant le silence autour de ce que fait le Danemark, dans le respect de la tradition colonialiste europ\u00e9enne aux Groenlandais\u00b7ses\u00c0 ce propos, Lib\u00e9ration a publi\u00e9 un article formidable et gla\u00e7ant de Nelly Didelot sur les abus effectu\u00e9s sur les populations colonis\u00e9es dans un temps tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9sent : \u00abOn ne m\u2019a jamais rendu mes enfants\u00bb : au Danemark, les Groenlandais vis\u00e9s par des placements abusifs..\nIl s'agit tout d'un coup de faire bloc avec un moindre oppresseur pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme un camarade purifi\u00e9, car vu seulement d'en haut, du point de vue de l'ordre international.

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", "content-plain": "Sur &&&, \u00e0 propos du campisme et des prises de position qui en d\u00e9coulent \u00e0 propos des massacres de manifestant\u00b7es qui se soul\u00e8vent actuellement en Iran :\n\nYour evasion follows from a deliberate theoretical substitution that elevates geopolitical hostility to the United States and Israel above any substantive commitment to emancipation. Your politics collapses into a barren syllogism: if a regime positions itself against Western power, it must therefore be defended, or at minimum shielded from serious critique. Oppression becomes tolerable so long as it is administered by the correct enemy.\n\nClassic Third Worldist traditions, at their best, insisted on popular agency: peasants, workers, women, the colonized acting against both imperial domination and indigenous ruling classes. Much of the Western Left now performs a hollowed-out caricature: a state-centric geopolitics that treats regimes as theatrical avatars of resistance. In practice, it becomes nationalist fetishism that excuses state violence and, often, embraces it. Culpability with the mass slaughter in Iran also rests squarely on you.\n\nAny serious engagement with anthropology, political economy, or historical materialism should have inoculated you against this error. Power is plural. Domination belongs to no single civilization or empire. Empires produce violence, and so do revolutionary states, clerical hierarchies, nationalist movements, and bureaucracies that rule in the name of resistance. A politics incapable of holding this simultaneity remains brittle, lazy, and morally bankrupt.\n\nIf you genuinely oppose genocide, authoritarianism, and oppression in all their forms, abandon the childish comfort of \u201cthe enemy of my enemy is my friend.\u201d 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.\nOpen Letter to the Anti Imperialist Left, &&&\nLe texte prend \u00e0 parti et s'emporte dans son \u00e9nervement, mais c'est, il me semble, une bonne critique de la position \u00ab campiste \u00bb qui m'a toujours paru incoh\u00e9rente et difficile \u00e0 saisir \u00e0 cause de son arbitraire d'alliances de pouvoir, qui me paraissent opaque.\n\nLe texte a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9publi\u00e9, le temps de la r\u00e9daction de cette note.\n\nOn pourrait avoir une lecture similaire concernant le silence autour de ce que fait le Danemark, dans le respect de la tradition colonialiste europ\u00e9enne aux Groenlandais\u00b7ses\u00c0 ce propos, Lib\u00e9ration a publi\u00e9 un article formidable et gla\u00e7ant de Nelly Didelot sur les abus effectu\u00e9s sur les populations colonis\u00e9es dans un temps tr\u00e8s pr\u00e9sent : \u00abOn ne m\u2019a jamais rendu mes enfants\u00bb : au Danemark, les Groenlandais vis\u00e9s par des placements abusifs.. Il s'agit tout d'un coup de faire bloc avec un moindre oppresseur pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme un camarade purifi\u00e9, car vu seulement d'en haut, du point de vue de l'ordre international.", "summary": "signet : Open Letter to the Anti Imperialist Left \u00b7 tripleampersand.org", "syndication": [], "type": "entry", "bookmark-of": [ { "url": "https://tripleampersand.org/open-letter-to-the-anti-imperialist-left/", "syndication": [], "type": "cite", "name": "Open Letter to the Anti Imperialist Left" } ] }