As an Armenian-Iranian the past two weeks have been sitting heavily on me.
I want to preface this with two things before I begin: I support my people of Iran, and I am by all means not a monarchist.
Now, I need to state the absolute frustration i have felt for the past 5 years with western and SPECIFICALLY American leftists. Your armchair politics and theory mean nothing because you do not apply it to your lives. What I mean is that you are useless. You look down on the global south, on people fighting for freedom from their oppressive governments who are, let me tell you, by all means capitalist, despite being anti-US or having âcommunistâ in their name.
You shame those for fighting against theocratic regimes, regimes who arrest and murder leftists in their country, and regimes that torture people for not aligning with them politically.
You call our people American agents, and want oppressed people to sit and WAIT until the American empire falls.
Yet you do NOTHING to bring about the fall of the American empire, because you are in your cushy armchair reading theory.
You want the global south to wait for YOU to action a revolution to bring about the fall of the American empire, yet you do nothing.
You want our people to SUFFER without end while you get to live on that armchair looking down on our movements because your comfort is subsidized by our suffering. It is bought through the destruction and exploitation of the global south.
Real theory is made on the ground, not in your books. Revolution is messy. Revolution is imperfect.
Iranians are a freedom loving people. They brought down the Shah because they wanted freedom, we want the right to choose. Iranians are bringing down the Islamic Republic because they want freedom, they want the right to choose. Every dictator will fall at our hands, every theocrat, every figure that rises to oppress and contain us will fall. We have proven that.
It is your choice whether you want to pretend to be educated, whether you want to pretend to be a revolutionary. Letâs be real, most white western leftists that control the narrative only fantasize about a communist utopia where they are in power. At the end of the day, it is about power, about ego for themâ not freedom of the global south. The narrative surrounding Iran proves that. Westerners do not care about brown people. We are just theory. We are a concept. The liberation of the global south means nothing to them, and we will always be looked at from under someoneâs boot.
Sincerely,
An Armenian-Iranian Anarchist
