Assad is a Neo-lib

Reminder that "le lion of damascus xD" is a neo-liberal despot.

Bashar al-Assad embarked on a series of Western-style neo-liberal reforms following the so-called Damascus Spring in the early 2000s, which included the privatization of industry and banking. This obviously exacerbated inequality and encouraged nepotism, and the disenfranchisement in which that development left the lower classes was what allowed Islamist charities to step in among the impoverished in the first place.

The only reason why Assad receives support from the local Communist Party is because they're retarded tankies who would pledge allegiance to anyone for the sake of "anti-imperialism." In fact, disgruntled members of the party left in 1976 when Assad's father invaded Lebanon on behalf of anti-Palestinian Maronite extremists, and that clandestine breakaway faction is today not part of the state-approved "National Progressive Front."

Sources:
thedailybeast.com/in-syria-follow-the-money-to-find-the-roots-of-the-revolt
aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/syria-bashar-al-assad-power-160904081138141.html
rogerannis.com/is-syrias-uprising-against-bashar-al-assads-regime-a-popular-revolution/
qz.com/959806/the-enigmatic-story-of-how-syrias-bashar-al-assad-turned-from-a-painfully-shy-eye-doctor-into-a-murderous-tyrant/

Other urls found in this thread:

aljumhuriya.net/en/the-role-of-the-intellectual/syria_the_left_and_the_world
jacobinmag.com/2017/01/syria-war-crisis-refugees-assad-dictatorship-arab-spring-intervention-russia/
thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/myth-of-assad-s-anti-imperialism/
socialistworker.org/2017/01/04/for-a-genuine-anti-imperialism
cpress.org/editorials/old/why-the-syrian-business-class-wont-give-up-on-assad
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Daily reminder that the American empire is only a couple of defeats away from total collapse. Don't ruin this for us Anarkiddies.

We already have a thread faggot, can you at least look at the first three threads in the catalog before posting your drivel, you imperialist tool?

Yeah! China becoming the dominant imperialist power is sure to bring the revolution.

Remind me why we give a shit bout dictators like Assad? If not really fucking with America for being imperialist warmongers is all it takes for some on Holla Forums to become his personal full-time fluffers the bar's prolly set waaay too low.

Think strategically. Where have all revolutions so far occured? During periods of conflicts between super powers.

Franco-Prussian War gave us the Commune, WW1 the Soviet Union, WW2 the eventual victory of the Chinese communists, among others. Even the "socialist" governments in the Middle-East only had a chance because of the Cold War, and wouldn't have lasted without Soviet support. That's because when two powers compete, revolutionaries become a good "enemy of my enemy" option (think Lenin and Germany), and the shocks that come from the conflict give us many opportunities.

The point is: Unchallenged hegemony, by any country, is bad. You always support the alternative because it's through these conflictions that we're given opportunities to seize.

Cool it, Mao cat. The other thread was posted while I was writing mine.

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Rojava wouldn't even be a thing were it not for American intervention. It's just another manifestation of nascent kurd nationalism in the region. It's not strong and it will probably end up destroyed by the end of this conflict.

More reading:

aljumhuriya.net/en/the-role-of-the-intellectual/syria_the_left_and_the_world

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This is an unbelievably reactionary quote.

no he isn't, he isn't as great as his dad but he isn't a fucking neolib. thats like calling Khrushchev a fucking neolib

ahahahah all of this is absolute bs btw. war torn "kurdistan" doesn't function like that at all, no matter how badly american pseudo leftist bookchin idiots want to think it does

Any source on how it actually works?

Literal FSA/Saudi mouthpiece

It's meant to be "revolutionary", i.e., actually counter-revolutionary, like the Bolsheviks were.

Edgy

Then find a source debunking that you piece of shit. Literally "x is owned by da joos" tier argument.

He is. He supported the same type of market reforms being enacted in the West. Or is it that, like with Fascism, Neo-Liberalism should be called by another name once it crosses the "anti-imperialist" boundary line?

Assad privatized and deregulated shit big time. Atleast his dad was a succdem.

My source is the international communist movement and the people inside of Syria giving up their lives to resist imperialism. Imperialist/capitalist ownership of a news organization renders it utterly unreliable.

Great source friendo :^)

lmao

And how exactly did you get to learn about their opinions? Besides, one could easily make the same claim about people giving up their lives to fight against Assad's despotism.

Then you shouldn't trust pro-Assad media because their owners are not only capitalists of both the private and state varieties, they're also probably low-key supporters of imperialism as well considering Syria' decade-long occupation of Lebanon only ended twelve years ago.

jacobinmag.com/2017/01/syria-war-crisis-refugees-assad-dictatorship-arab-spring-intervention-russia/
thecommunists.net/worldwide/africa-and-middle-east/myth-of-assad-s-anti-imperialism/
socialistworker.org/2017/01/04/for-a-genuine-anti-imperialism

The communist movement isn't a bunch of petit bourgeois Stalinist parties pretending to be relevant.
So no source, huh? Only appeals to muh feels.

Amazing rebuttal.

Rojava's de facto independence predates American support for them. The US didn't really give a shit about them until the Battle of Kobani when they started giving them major air support.

Come the fuck on.

What about the people getting bombed by dictator-controlled NATO-member Turkey? What about the people laying down their lives to finally eradicate the frankensteinian CIA project commonly known as ISIS? We can go back and forth with this shit forever.

Stopped reading there.

I'm surprised you even managed to get this far, tankies usually struggle with the thread title alone.

Ironic, if not for Tankies no one in Eastern Europe would have been able to read.

Are you suggesting that if it weren't for tankies people would live in mud huts and worship cows or something?

Sorry forgot the pic :)

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Measure the war crimes, liberal.

Whatcha doing porky?

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So far, none of the tankies sucking Assad's dick have mounted any sort of argument against OP's point.

sad tbh

Oh! Oh! You're forgetting Syria's suspected role in the assassination of Lebanon's PM in 2005, plus Syria's repeated invasions of Jordan and suspected role in kidnappings and assassinations of Jordanian leaders.


That was born to fail, since events forced Lenin to reluctantly move ahead before the German Revolution he was relying on to stabilize Russian communism, that was crushed. Not to mention that the 3rd Internationale itself was a result of the left's resounding failure to use WWI as the spark for worldwide general strikes to dismantle the capitalist-imperialist war machines before WWI could happen and unite their peoples.
All of which were so retardedly revisionist, they ended up fighting among each other (the already unsalvagable USSR split from the PRC, Vietnam conquering Cambodia and being invaded by China, etc.)
The "socialist" governments that were fabricated and propped up by the Soviets strictly to oppose NATO just as much as the Muslim fundamentalists were fabricated and propped up by NATO to oppose the Soviets. Both, of course, obliterating the nascent bourguoise secular republics that were progressing strongly in the Mideast before WWII. Not to mention the steady modernization occurring in the crumbling Ottoman Empire, before they were knocked out in WWI.

wew

Holy shit dude, you're an absolute idiot. Even your Anarchist projects resulted out of wars, which you conveniently leave out of the equation.

Who cares? He opposes America and Israel and supports Russia. That's good enough. Anti-imperialism is more important than an anarchist project that will ultimately serve America in some way.

PEAK TANKIE

tankies everyone

Spontaneous revolution in areas ceded to imperialists by failed USSR
Civil war during inter-war years in isolated non-power
Spontaneous revolution in decaying non-power
Civil war sparked by regional unrest

I don't know. Sure, there were the German and Russian revolutions. But many historians also claim that the reason why there wasn't a revolution in France was precisely because of the war; that's why the French national bourgeoisie so welcomed the development, a conflict on the "outside" was the perfect occasion to nip the conflict on the "inside" in the bud.

local warlords supervised by populist politics and US forces?

americas occupation of syria is still ongoing
as for lebanon syria invaded to cockblock israel from monkeying around and hurting themselves again

same with the various muslim brotherhood and salafist movements in syria.

so? it only supports the claim that there would be no big yellow chunk of land in northen syria if america didnt want it

i dont see any reason to find CNN and aljazeera even optional sources

source:me

geopolitics is no place for emotions.

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but hes right. stop daydreaming and grow up.

diagnosis: dementia

I know that Rojava is neither ethnonationalist nor a CIA proxy because both retarded tankies and pedantic leftcoms say it is.

Tankies sound more and more like Conservatives every day.

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i know youre an overemotional millenial who thinks his opinions matter

lol what a shit forced meme. is the west not neoliberal? it is. but ofcourse its easy to criticise some macroeconomic shit to promote some hippie experiment from a laptop in starbucks isnt it?

yeah, well i dont like rojava and all those other groups because they arent following the manifesto to the letter. fuck em.

Vanguardism needs to be more inclusive

The big yellow chunk is more a side effect of the american primary goal. Believe it or not but supporting a PKK affiliate wasnt their first choice.

i know. if it werent for ISIS the groups in todays SDF would either just become soe FSA labeled militias or syrian exclaves like in idlib, hasakah and dierezzor

Someone's getting emotional here.

what the fuck are you even talking about

Don't forget about the nepotism.


cpress.org/editorials/old/why-the-syrian-business-class-wont-give-up-on-assad

let me break it down for you slow reader
the west is the bulwark of neoliberal hegemony and is what led assad to decide to liberalise syria (that includes politically and socially, but you dont wanna hear that because thats a good thing)

meanwhile this neoliberal west is actively trying to destabilise syria and the region using many tools, including SDF/YPG/whateveryouwannacallit, which you support from the comfort of the neoliberal west which is much more neoliberal than syria. and this support of yours is completely unproductive and aids people on the ground in absolutely no fucking way.

what is your home country doing right now johhny?