Campism

### **Campism is bullshit**

* "Against Campism, for International Working-Class Solidarity" by Jason Schulman and Dan La Botz https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/winter-2020/against-campism-for-international-working-class-solidarity/ [EN] (Social democratic perspective)
* "Against campism: What makes some leftists support Putin?" By Daphne Lawless https://fightback.org.nz/2015/11/05/against-campism-what-makes-some-leftists-support-putin/ [EN]
* "A new Cold War is coming. Africa should not pick sides" by W. Gyude Moore https://mg.co.za/africa/2020-08-21-a-new-cold-war-is-coming-africa-should-not-pick-sides/ [EN]
* "A letter to the Progressive International" by yassin al-Haj Saleh https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/letter-progressive-international [EN]
* "A critique of solidarity" by Yassin al-Haj Saleh https://www.aljumhuriya.net/en/content/critique-solidarity [EN]
* "Abandoning Criticism of China’s Government Isn’t the Right Way to End Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S." by Ho-fung Hung https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/abandoning-criticism-of-chinas-government-isnt-right-way-end-anti-asian [EN]
* "Fighting anti-Asian violence cannot include apologism for the Chinese state" by Promise Li https://lausan.hk/2021/fighting-anti-asian-violence/ [EN]
* "The Grieving and the Grievable" by Yangyang Cheng https://supchina.com/2021/04/09/the-grieving-and-the-grievable/ (Archive: https://archive.vn/8kYcL) [EN]
* "Biden and Xi escalate US-China conflict" https://chinaworker.info/en/2021/04/18/28922/ [EN]
* "Narrow Anti-Imperialism as Ideological Cover for Authoritarianism" By Yavor Tarinski https://libcom.org/library/narrow-anti-imperialism-ideological-cover-authoritarianism [EN]
* "China and the U.S. Left" https://spectrejournal.com/china-and-the-u-s-left/ [EN]
* "Reimagining anti-imperialist praxis in DSA" by Promise Li https://www.tempestmag.org/2021/07/reimagining-anti-imperialist-praxis-in-dsa/ [EN]
* "Roundtable on China" https://spectrejournal.com/roundtable-on-china/ [EN]
* "tankies, despair, and politics: a case study" https://wokeglobaltimes.com/tankies-and-despair [EN]

### **News Articles**

* “Exposed: The pro-Assad useful idiots in our midst” by Rupert Read https://leftfootforward.org/2011/10/pro-basher-al-assad-useful-idiots-exposed/ [EN]
* "The left’s hollow anti-imperialism over Syria" by Joey Ayoub https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/lefts-hollow-anti-imperialism-over-syria [EN]

### **Magazine Articles**

* “The U.S. protests: Lessons from Syria” by: Leila Al Shami https://newpol.org/the-us-protests-lessons-from-syria/ [EN]
* "'Campism' and the 'New' (Anti-) Imperialisms" by Bryant William Sculos https://newpol.org/issue\_post/campism-and-the-new-anti-imperialisms/ [EN]
* "On Gutter Journalism and Purported 'Anti-Imperialism'"by Gilbert Achcar https://newpol.org/on-gutter-journalism-and-purported-anti-imperialism/ [EN]
* ""The Monthly Review's China Issue Reveals the Narcissistic Inward Gaze, Self-Flagellating Politics of the Western Left" by Brian Hioe https://newbloommag.net/2021/09/09/monthly-review-china-takedown/ [EN]

### **Blog Posts**

* "How ‘Anti-Imperialism’ became a buzzword for oppressors" by Joshua Collins https://medium.com/muros-invisibles/how-anti-imperialism-became-a-buzzword-for-oppressors-a6e9ace5c7ed [EN]
* “Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse “ by Mohammed Suliman https://hummusforthought.com/2016/10/18/wretched-of-the-earth-thoughts-on-syria-palestine-and-discourse/ [EN]
* “Donetsk in context” by Lous Proyect https://louisproyect.org/2014/04/13/donetsk-in-context/ [EN]
* "Trotksyism and Political Confusionism: The Case of Sam Marcy and the 'Marcyites'" by Andrew Coates https://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/trotksyism-and-political-confusionism-the-case-of-sam-marcy-and-the-macryites/ [EN]

### **Books**

* “World Revolution 1917–1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International” by CLR James https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/world/ [EN]

### **Podcast Episodes**

* "Vicky Osterweil on US Left Media: How Riots expose the Distance between The People and the Pundits" by The Arts of Travel https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-arts-of-travel/id1406775458?i=1000476363688 [44 min, EN]  (talks about the anti-imperialism of fools at 32:00)
* "Wretched of the Earth: Thoughts on Syria, Palestine and Discourse" uploaded by The Fire These Times https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-wretched-earth-thoughts-on-syria-palestine-discourse/id1503094935?i=1000480062204?i=1000480062204 [1:10:02, EN]
* "The Left’s Tribal Anti-imperialism" uploaded by Arab Tyrant Manual https://arabtyrantmanual.com/atm-033-the-lefts-tribal-anti-imperialism/ [59:48, EN]
* "A China policy for the progressive left" uploaded by Sinicia https://supchina.com/podcast/a-china-policy-for-the-progressive-left/ [EN, 01:04:28]
* "U.S.-China relations: The rock, the hard place, and those in between" by NüVoices https://supchina.com/podcast/u-s-china-relations-the-rock-the-hard-place-and-those-in-between/ [51:44, EN]

### **Music**

* “Revolution Everywhere” chant - “ثورة بكل البلدان” uploaded by Hassan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyZXGGuRz1Y [3:24, EN SUB, EN, AR]

### **Videos**

* “What Is Internationalist Socialist Solidarity?, part one” uploaded by John Reimann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIpuL5qthlY [10:22, EN]
* “What Is Internationalist Socialist Solidarity? Part 2” uploaded by John Reimann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx2yCOA6eV8 [9:33, EN]
* “What Is Internationalist Socialist Solidarity? Part 3” uploaded by John Reimann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xlKSHWBpns [11:52, EN]
* “What Is Internationalist Socialist Solidarity? Part 4” uploaded by John Reimann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrEVt651Qi4 [10:56, EN]
* "Is There a Left Foreign Policy?" uploaded by Zero Books https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr\_Ipn9cQgM [01:38:25, EN]

### **Archived**

* https://archive.vn/0Ant6 [EN], https://archive.vn/F2Qux [EN] - explaining what campism is
* https://archive.ph/NsB33 [EN] - how American Left throws Chinese Left under the bus

### **Notes**

* it is normal for reactionary governments (eg. Russia, Ukraine, Iran, India, Pakistan, USA, Brazil) to antagonize each others and all early revolutionary writers noticed this tendency and advocate for making revolution with the international proletariat while the governments are distracted
* “If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same…” - Marjane Satrapi
* Reason why anarchists and Marxist-Leninists get along with each others outside the imperial core is they are not LARPing about a bygones era from 30 years ago