“Socialism in One Country” Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary “Anti-Imperialism”: The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
This text shows that Soviet Russia, well before the triumph of Stalin and “socialism in one country” in 1924, was already subordinating foreign communist movements to its nation-state foreign policy interests. It also shows the existence of a left opposition inside the new Turkish communist movement to this subordination. It has great implications for a critique of today’s “anti-imperialist” ideology.