{"id":1318,"date":"2017-09-27T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T14:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alisecer.site\/tkp2021\/2017\/09\/27\/okuyan-nationalism-question\/"},"modified":"2021-03-08T14:34:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T11:34:37","slug":"okuyan-nationalism-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tkp.org.tr\/en\/agenda\/statements\/okuyan-nationalism-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Okuyan on the nationalism question"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are not the ones who teach us nationalism!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

What is nationalism?<\/p>\n

Some describe it as the love towards one\u2019s country. But such a conceptualization would be a personal and a bit unrealistic picture of nationalism. Those who try to attribute \u201cinnocence\u201d to nationalism are apt to confuse nationalism with the love toward a country or even to identify it with patriotism, which is a far more intrinsic concept.<\/p>\n

 \u201cI love my country, that\u2019s why I\u2019m a nationalist\u2026\u201d Very well, but this is not nationalism! Nationalism is simply to think that your country\u2019s interests are superior to others.
\nIs this a good thing? No it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

One could say, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with that? In such a world you can\u2019t survive unless you hold your country\u2019s interests superior to others.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuch a World<\/em>\u201d…<\/p>\n

What do we mean?<\/p>\n

A world where the powerful one oppresses and exploits the weak one!<\/p>\n

Then, let us avoid them oppress us, let us be the powerful one, let us walk all over the others. This is nationalism; this is what nationalism amounts to. 
\nIf you don\u2019t have the will to change the world where the powerful one oppresses and exploits the weak one, the only real consequence of putting forward your countries\u2019 interests is doing harm to others. 
\nIn “such a World<\/em>\u201d everyone does not win, cannot win, since this world is built on inequalities and injustices. <\/p>\n

Yet, it is not the inequalities between the nations that lie behind the inequalities in this world. The reason of injustice and inequality in the world is the very existence of an exploiting class, which constitutes a very small proportion of the humanity. The inequalities between the nations are only the extension of this reality. There are exploiters not only in US, Britain, France or Germany, but also in Turkey. Let\u2019s glance over the poorer regions: you can see the same rapacious class stealing people\u2019s labor in Sudan, Nigeria, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, this class is in power in these countries.  <\/p>\n

This nefarious exploiting class can preserve political power in every country of the world also because they manage to present their own interests as the interest of the whole nation. Nationalism is the most effective weapon to make people take this bait. <\/p>\n

Nationalism is a disaster in the sense that it instigates a worker to prefer his exploiter to a poor one of another nation; or favor the exploiters of his own country while hating the exploiters of other nations… 
\nLike in the following: disdaining Barzani as an oil-rich tribal chief while considering the fortune overflowing from the cashboxes of Ko\u00e7 family legitimate.  <\/p>\n

There is a huge difference between nationalism and patriotism; while nationalism amounts to absolving of native exploiters patriotism implies the will of cleaning the country from native and foreign exploiters.
\nAnd this is what the humanity needs.  <\/p>\n

One who really cares about his country cannot close his eyes to the contamination of its soils with injustices, theft and despotism. <\/p>\n

To clarify… <\/p>\n

Angola is a \u201crich\u201d country in Africa. It is rich in the sense that its natural wealth is immense though the majority of its population is poor: Gold and oil! 
\nThis country was for years a Portuguese colony. The filthy colonizers had plundered the country for years. Finally, in the age of oil, as Angola became more valuable for plunderers, the burden imposed on the local people scaled up. Then that people decided to rebel and they took up arms. The Angola Liberation Movement was a case that marked the demise of the Portuguese colonialism. The Soviet Union, Cuba and the Portuguese communists supported MPLA, the prominent organization of the Angola liberation. They drove the Portuguese exploiters away, nationalized all the crucial sectors of the economy. People of Angola got familiar to public education, public health and justice; modern cities came to existence. 
\nWith the collapse of the Soviet Union, the capitalists defiling the world started to buy over the rulers who took part in the glorious guerilla movement in the past. Degradation spread like wildfire and an extremely vicious exploiting class emerged in a couple of years. They even didn\u2019t condescend to change the flag, which was the symbol of the revolutionary liberation of the country; in fact the flag with the gear wheel and machete symbolizing the oppressed people was serving to their purpose: and it was also kind of \u201cnationalism\u201d. As they played with huge amounts of money, starving, poor people of Angola glorified the \u201csame flag\u201d. The gear wheel figured the profit machine of the wealthy, not the liberation of the workers; the machete was no more the weapon of the poor people, but it was the truncheon, tank, cannon of an unjust regime. <\/p>\n

I saw the representatives of this new exploiting class in Portugal. Those battened people were black and they were getting off their eight door limousines. Their necks were bending with the weight of the golden chains. They were covetously investing in Portugal as if they were taking the revenge from their former white exploiters. Now, the white man was not exploiting the black man, rather the black man was exploiting black people and also the white people. <\/p>\n

The humanity will rise up thanks to those who do not tolerate the dark skin exploiters, who confront all the exploiting scoundrels notwithstanding the color of their skins.  
\nTurkish or Kurd; Arab or Greek… <\/p>\n

Fraternity of all the peoples\u2026 <\/p>\n

But, how do we achieve this? <\/p>\n

With an egalitarian order… It is not possible in any other way. If the logic is to stop the resource transfer abroad and to exploit other countries, this is not struggle against imperialism, but a scandalous trick. <\/p>\n

What about independence?<\/p>\n

A movement of independence that leans on the exploiting classes in the 21th century can by no means serve the humanity. Principle of self-determination has no validity under these circumstances. 
\nThe only principle of today\u2019s revolutionaries is to struggle against the exploiters. <\/p>\n

Barzani is not exempt from our rage against all the exploiters battening on our people. We are not going to learn the definitions of nationalism, internationalism, Marxism from those who once characterized Erdo\u011fan as \u201cdemocrat\u201d, \u201clibertarian\u201d, \u201creformist\u201d and even \u201crevolutionary\u201d with the expectation that he would \u201csolve\u201d the Kurdish question. 
\nYes, as Orhan G\u00f6kdemir* put it, we are against both Barzanistan and Tayyibistan.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*SoL news portal columnist<\/em><\/p>\n

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