The result is that populists who accept neoliberalism as their economic principle equate anti-imperialism with authoritarian nationalism, disregard for civil liberties, controlling women’s bodies, and repressing minorities. In other words, we are left with a neoliberalism without civil liberties, and anti-imperialism without a vision of emancipation.

Who does this even describe? Neoliberal populists who are also “anti-imperialists”??? These people don’t exist anywhere in numbers large enough to hold power

Jacobin article arguing about phantom “anti-imperialists” while also implying its good the US overthrew the Pakistani government

Ok the US approved government isn’t going to be better and the disruption caused by power struggles will only hit the working class, if the author wants real anti-imperialists to take power maybe he should recognize the basic fact that independent dictators are easier to overthrow than the client dictators of a superpower

Reminds me of when Egyptian liberals were celebrating the overthrow of Morsi while studiously ignoring who the fuck was actually doing the overthrowing

Westerners talking over asians to prove how “based” they are on asian issues

Ammar is good. Does really good praxis with his hkm movement. He’s right on the money here

ITT: The virgin “I read the article and it makes fair points” vs. the chad “Jacobin is an imperialist mouthpiece, i’m not reading this shit”

BTW i haven’t read it so i don’t know which way Khan went but Assad isn’t a communist dream leader either and that’s not why he is considered an “anti-imperialist hero” but because he’s helping to build an anti US-hegemony bloc. So, umm, you know, critical support.

Did anyone think Khan was an anti-imperialist hero?