[Marxism] Ahmadinejad: Capitalism nearing collapse

[Louis Proyect]

Néstor Gorojovsky wrote:
> When Third World leaders such as Ahmadin Ejad speak "anticapitalist"
> they mean "antiimperialist". The strength of the situation, however,
> lies in that by so naming the system they attempt to obtain popular
> support for what, in the end, is nothing else than attempts at the
> build up of sound, self-centered, national economies in the periphery.
> That is, attempts at ESTABLISHING A TRULY ACTING CAPITALISM in the
> countries they rule.

I think this makes sense. The Iranian bourgeoisie that provides the 
social base for the Islamic Republic clashed with the comprador elements 
that backed the Shah. It has also embarked on an import substitution 
program in line with Prebitsch.


> But the very fact that in order to gain popular power this struggle
> for capitalism *must dress itself as anti-capitalist* (in Iran,
> through the promotion of an Islamic economy, in Venezuela through the
> promotion of a "Socialism of the 21st Century", in Argentina through
> the promotion of the "Christian humanism" of Peronism, and so on),

But Peronism was based on fostering trade union power, while the Islamic 
Republic is dedicated to suppressing it. I would compare Iran more with 
other Middle Eastern or North African petro-states like Libya than with 
Argentina.