Solidarity as the principle for the future
Hein Htet Kyaw ( Solidarity 669 and 670 ) argues that leftists in the richer countries should avoid “white saviour complex and white guilt” as political guidelines. Instead leftists should stand for “solidarity”. Otherwise, he argues, they end up as “useful idiots for the Islamists”, “campists”, or “useful idiots for Putin and Russia’s colonial war”. Costume-playing as “anti-imperialists”, with the tacit assumption that “the United States and NATO [are] the only imperialist camps on the planet”, they fall into “the anti-imperialism of the idiots”, complicit in the imperialisms or regional...