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Many people in Iran don't like their government, many do, there's a sample bias in that those who are more interested in western culture and more likely to learn English and talk to us are also more likely to be very secular (and sometimes, more propagandized by the west as well).
The main contradiction in the region right now is imperialism, after imperialism is weakened and the vassal states fall the people of Iran will be able to decide if they want a different government without US interference. As it stands now it's impossible for them to change their government and not be a neoliberal puppet run by compradors. Believe me I also want every Iranian to have as much freedom as they desire.
@ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works, maybe anarchists of the imperial core really do could use some colonialist/imperialist deprogramming.
I hear you, though I am more inclined to take a Gramscian view that cultural hegemony of capitalist/imperial core entities convert those anarchists to libertarians, or some form of compromised anarcho-syndicalism or libertarian socialism. So I wouldn't call them anarchists.
But it's not a True Scotsman thing for me, so I don't fundamentally disagree with that perspective.
Agreed. And I think most of the anarchist-leaning folks I know would also agree.