ALLIANCE 45: Originally February 2, 2002
Web republication at Marxist-Leninist Currents today 21 August 2021.
Introduction
The Afghanistan war of 2001-2002 has been the prelude to the coming Third World War. In this world war the force of the USA will be likely pitched against that of China. We anticipate that some of the key points of the war will involve the Central Asian Republics and their strategic positions, and their reserves of oil.
The tragedy of the Afghan people can be traced to the absence of a Marxist-Leninist party in the country. But, it must be openly admitted that the objective circumstances facing the revolution in Afghanistan were always huge – larger perhaps than facing many other countries in the immediate area.
We will argue that the legacy of Oriental despotism, and the failure to develop more than a rudimentary national capitalist class – has posed huge difficulties for the Afghan toiling masses. The leaders of the Marxist-Leninist (Lenin and Stalin) movement had mapped out a pathway for such countries, but these depended critically on the working classes of either the socialist countries or the metropolitan West to aid the backward countries.
Regrettably the rise of Khruschevite revisionism – has temporarily – halted that assistance. Instead of true socialist aid – the architects of revisionism ensured that Afghanistan became a neo-colony of the revisionist USSR. The USSR in that period engineered a social-imperialism.
This, in conflict with USA imperialism, destroyed the well being of the Afghan peoples.
We know that the Afghanistani Marxist-Leninsts will re-build their movement.
We hope that we will from now, be able to help the Afghan movement rebuild itself.