World rev 2

This work, written by the Russian neo-Marxist Alexander Tarasov, is a work explaining some problems with the Soviet strategy in relation to world revolution (albeit coming from a negative appraisal of the USSR), clarifying the distinction between First and Third World characterized by exploiting nations and exploiter nations, the dependence of the First World on the Third, the material basis for conservatism in the working class, and establishing the Third World as the revolutionary focuses for world revolution. Locating its origins in the Tricontinental and specifically Che Guevara's famous speech, it establishes an international outlook of global people's war. We repost it mostly in agreement, with a few caveats:
1. we find the discourse on Stalinism to be rather dry and predictable, and reject it, locating the degeneration of the USSR into social-imperialism not in a “Thermidorian coup”, but rather in existing class antagonisms which were not addressed by the period of socialist construction;
2. we find the omission of the existence of internal colonies to be problematic, especially on the part of a Russian neo-Marxist, as Russia, like North America, is a prison house of nations... unlike Tarasov, we would include the internal colonies as a Third World within the First World;
3. we find the discourse about “parasites not becoming revolutionary” to be limiting and dismissive of the relative autonomy of political and ideological factors in society; while it is true that a majority of people in the First World have a community with imperialism, it is also true that they can be approached and organized on the basis of a rejection of their own privileged position. This means that, as the process of delinking from imperialist countries continues in the Third World, while it will be increasingly possible to organize First World workers as a class and for their own interests, it is necessary to begin the process of creating subjective forces for revolution now, on the basis of a betrayal of one's privileged position in relation to imperialism.