I am Saeed salehinia. The WCP-I member. I got email from my friends in France and have pleasure to respond to your questions.
I hope, we develop a productive dialogue and our dialogue leads to activism which is a vital need for movement for freedom and socialism around the world.
My answers reflect the official position of my party. However it has a personal taste to it which is not avoidable.
Before responding to your questions, I want to insist about a fact:
There are serious differences in positions and semantic differences. We need to try hard to differentiate these two. Fighting on words has been a bitter tradition within the leftist camp . While communicating with each other we need to try hard to eliminate the semantic differences and focus on the real differences.
I urge you to consider this important fact, while following our dialogue.
Now:
1-You pointed at our statement about Islamic regime being sponsor of terrorism and main pillar of insecurity. And mentioned that imperialism and the U.S is the main…..
Our official position on this “puzzle” is the following:
The Islamic regime in Iran is the God father of political Islam and the origin of Islamic terrorism. The U.S government and its followers in the West are the main origin of Global terrorism. We believe that these two main camps, both are against humanity and we are in favor of organizing the third camp which is the camp of humanity against fanatism, capitalism in all forms.
In our view there is no “one worse than the other”! We believe these two are dynamically interconnected and we are against both.
This is our official position.
Let me know, if you have any difficulty with this position.
Please take a look at our official site (The Third camp):
2-You mentioned that we are not precise when we use “the better world”. You requested us to clearly state “Socialism”
In our political plan “The better world”. We clearly stated that we are in favor of socialism now.
People in Iran, know as with this slogan”Socialism now”. The Socialism is the only answer. We are historically defined as a communist movement which has criticized any “other version” of leftist tradition(Like Tudeh party and…..).
Any body who is familiar with our position would be surprised with your critics on this issue.
Please take a look at our program
I believe the above (1 and 2) critics are completely semantic ones!
3-The third critics which I would take it more serious is the fact that we requested international community to Isolate Islamic Regime in Iran and kick them out of any international organization and bodies. You argue that “The UN is organization of Capitalist governments” and should not be our focus. So indirectly you are accusing us to rely on Capitalists to fight against Islamic regime!
1-The UN is the ruling political power in the present world. We don’t like it but we can not ignore this fact. More than 150 Capitalistic government came together and created this institution. The controlling system in this UN is the U.S and few other Capitalistic government. So we are not confused about the nature of this organization and don’t have any plan to fool people about this fact.
2-In real world The U.N and the existing international relations affect the lives of billions in the world. As it was affecting the time, Lenin was leading the communism. We don’t believe that Lenin didn’t consider the fact that Capitalists are ruling the world and just “ignored them” because they are just Capitalists! This is just a stupid policy!
It was Lenin who came to official agreement to keep peace with revolutionary state after October. He was wise enough to use all tools he had to isolate those who attacked Soviet Union in the Capitalist Camp and had different strategies to different camps in Capitalistic block.
3-Our international strategy toward Islamic Regime has different dimensions:
A-We ask the international worker class and all grass root movements to stand against Islamic Regime and Bush’s Camp at the same time. We request all these movements to support our movement for socialism in Iran and Isolate Islamic Regime and block all its political resources all around the world.
B-We request all the NGOs to push their own governments to isolate Islamic Regime which has been using all their support to survive all last 30 years.
We believe that the whole world should isolate Islamic Regime the same way they did toward Apartheid Regime in the South Africa , years ago.
C- We are very clear that Capitalist governments are supporting each other but we also believe that people’s movement has a long history to split these capitalist government in the past. So our hope stands behind the people’s movement and not Capitalist governments! We believe by international collaboration of progressive movement we can achieve isolating Islamic regime.
I will wait for your response
.Truly,
Saeed Salehinia/Baltimore/U.S
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