MAZLUM ABDI SAID IN AN INTERVIEW GIVEN TO AN ISRAELI NEWSPAPER:
“AMERICA WANTS TO MAKE SYRIA GREAT AGAIN”
LIE!
IMPERIALISM HAS NOT CHANGED, THE USA HAS NOT ABANDONED ITS STRATEGY OF BEING THE EMPEROR OF THE IMPERIALIST SYSTEM
THE USA IS A MURDERER, AN EXPLOITER, AND A PLUNDERER.
The phrase “Wants to Make Syria Great Again” is an imitation of Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again – MAGA.”
Mazlum Abdi Is in Search of Legitimacy Through the Support of Imperialism.
Wrong!
Legitimacy Is Not in Cooperation with Imperialism, but in the Struggle for Independence Against Imperialism
Democratic Syrian Forces (DSF) Commander-in-Chief Mazlum Abdi gave an interview to Israel’s The Jerusalem Post newspaper.
In the interview he conducted with the newspaper, Mazlum Abdi touched upon many issues. The main points that can be drawn from Mazlum Abdi’s statements as a whole are as follows:
- “US President Trump wants to make Syria great again; while doing this, he should continue to support the DSF.
- The USA needs to remain in Northeast Syria. Stability in Damascus depends on the USA staying.
- Since the USA has reduced its ‘financial’ support, there have been disruptions in the fight against ISIS; our struggle against ISIS must continue to be supported.
- The DSF should take part in the Damascus government.
- There is no alternative to the DSF; we have a military force of 70,000 soldiers and 30,000 police, a total of 100,000 people; if this force unites with Syria, Syria will become stronger.
- The USA should support us in taking part in the new government.”
MAZLUM ABDI, WITH A COLLABORATIONIST STATE OF MIND, INTERNALIZES THE DISCOURSE OF THE IMPERIALISTS
Mazlum Abdi says that the USA wants to “MAKE SYRIA GREAT AGAIN,” and continues by saying that this depends on supporting them.
First of all, this discourse bears similarity to Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again – MAGA.”
Trump says “I will make America magnificent,” and Mazlum Abdi says “The USA–Trump wants to make Syria magnificent.”
This is, of course, not a coincidence. Marx says that a person’s language is the mirror of their thought. That is, a person says what they think.
The convergence of Mazlum Abdi’s words with Trump’s is the result of Abdi’s thoughts converging with those of the imperialists.
Because;
a) Collaborationist local leaders internalize the discourse of imperialist centers.
b) Collaborationist leaders who accept imperialist patronage are in discursive harmony with imperialists.
c) By using imperialist discourse, while giving the message “the USA is on our side” to their own masses, at the same time they want to give the message “we approve your policies” to the USA.
Mazlum Abdi and the Kurdish nationalist movement do this through cheap imitation.
Imitating the master is the psychology of a slave who has been granted small privileges and has surrendered his soul to the orders of his master. Mazlum Abdi is in this psychological state. He is a simple imitator of Trump.
CAN THE USA MAKE SYRIA “GREAT”?
No, it cannot. Because;
a) The imperialist nature of the USA does not allow this. According to Lenin, imperialism is defined as the expansion of capital and military power into other countries, making them dependent and fragmented.
When we look at the practices of the USA in Syria:
- Control of territory
- Control of oil regions
- Policies that deepen regional fragmentation
- Managing proxy wars
- Establishing hegemony through permanent “stability”
None of these practices aim at “rebuilding Syria.” The interest of imperialism is not development in countries like Syria, but the production of dependency.
The capitalist system is based on exploitation and profit, and as long as the system continues, this will never change.
Imperialism is the monopolistic stage of capitalism. Exploitation and profit are concentrated in the hands of monopolies. Politics is focused on the domination, exploitation, and profit of monopolies.
The aim of US policy in Syria is to establish and deepen new colonial relations in Syria. To realize this aim, it needs collaborators.
b) The real function of the USA’s “reconstruction” discourse is imperialist propaganda; it aims to legitimize military and economic interventions through the discourse of “rescue, improvement, modernization.”
As seen in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, it produces destruction and fragmentation.
c) The concrete practice of the USA in Syria is not development, but consolidating its interests.
- Taking control of oil and strategic regions
- De facto fragmenting Syria’s territorial integrity
- Ensuring permanent military presence through proxy forces
- Creating a functional balance of chaos
According to Marxist-Leninist analysis, these are classic imperialist interest policies, and all imperialist policies AIM TO CONSOLIDATE AND DEEPEN THEIR EXPLOITATION AND DOMINATION.
So why does Mazlum Abdi use the discourse that the USA wants to make Syria “great”?
The reasons are:
- Military and political dependency
- Search for legitimacy through imperialist support
- Conflict between pragmatism and ideological inconsistency
- Integration into US regional interests
The USA has created a collaborator by supporting the Kurdish nationalist movement and the DSF politically, militarily, and economically against ISIS attacks.
The relationship, which initially developed as military dependency, has over time evolved into political and ideological dependency.
As a result, Mazlum Abdi says, “The USA should continue to support us, should continue to stay in Syria.”
Mazlum Abdi’s use of MAGA-like rhetoric reflects ideological dependency; the USA’s claim that it will “make Syria great again” reflects imperialist propaganda; and the USA’s actual practices in Syria reflect plunder, fragmentation, and military control.
Mazlum Abdi speaks with the mouth of imperialism.
He distorts reality.
What is the reality?
1) According to Lenin:
a) Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. It is the highest stage of the system of exploitation.
Therefore, for an imperialist power to claim that it will “develop another country” is a distortion, an attempt to conceal reality and legitimize its own collaboration.
The interest of imperialism is to obtain markets, raw materials, strategic positions, military-geopolitical advantage, and dependent regional actors—not to develop another country.
For these reasons, the claim that the USA will “make Syria great again” is unreal.
b) The discourse of dependent actors is shaped according to imperialism.
Lenin says that some leaders of small nations may enter into “forced alliances” with imperialist powers, but he also draws attention to the ideological consequences of this.
What emerges in such cases is: adoption of imperialist discourse, spreading the perception of a “savior power,” and persuading the people to imperialist support.
Mazlum Abdi’s MAGA-like discourse is exactly the outward manifestation of the ideological hegemony and dependency relationship described by Lenin.
c) Imperialist claims of “civilizing,” “modernizing,” and “developing” are bourgeois lies.
Lenin emphasizes in many of his writings: imperialism occupies backward countries in the name of “order, stability, and development,” but in reality it plunders and fragments them.
What the USA does in Syria is exactly this.
2) According to Stalin:
Stalin draws very clear lines in his writings, especially on the national question, state independence, imperialism, and national liberation struggles:
a) Relying on imperialist powers weakens the national movement.
According to Stalin, the success of a national movement rests on: the will of the people, organized power, and economic and military independence.
Relying on an imperialist power turns the movement into a dependent instrument.
In this case, similarity between the discourse used and the discourse of the imperialist center is natural—but dangerous.
Stalin defines this as “the beginning of ideological surrender.”
b) Imperialist propaganda appears as a “liberator,” but its real purpose is division and exploitation.
From Stalin’s perspective, US policies toward Syria aim to: arrange regional balance according to its own interests, weaken national states, pit regional peoples against each other, and control energy resources.
Therefore, “making Syria great” has no reality.
c) The repetition of imperialist slogans by dependent leaders reveals their class character.
According to Stalin, such discourse signals the class orientation within the movement:
The revolutionary, anti-imperialist line rejects imperialist slogans; the pragmatic, dependent, petty-bourgeois line adopts imperialist discourse.
From Stalin’s viewpoint, Mazlum Abdi’s discourse is a sign of petty-bourgeois narrow pragmatism, reliance on imperialism, and ideological dependency.
3) According to Mao:
a) “Imperialism is not a real tiger, it is a paper tiger”—but it is dangerous.
Mao states that imperialists exaggerate their strength to intimidate weak nations, but are internally decaying and therefore weak.
From Mao’s perspective, the USA’s “we will make Syria great” discourse is a psychological warfare tool that forces the people to place hope in imperialism.
b) The liberation of national movements cannot be achieved through imperialist support.
Mao says: “Dependency is the poison of revolution.”
Therefore, Mazlum Abdi’s repetition of US slogans means: petty-bourgeois surrender, blurring of line, and reliance on imperialism instead of trusting the power of the people.
c) Alliance with imperialism passivizes the people.
Mao defines reliance on a foreign power as “a path that kills the initiative of the masses.”
4) According to Ho Chi Minh:
a) The Vietnamese people’s war leader’s view of imperialism is very clear:
“THE USA IS SUCH A POWER THAT IT DESTROYS THE COUNTRY IT ‘HELPS.’”
In Vietnam, the USA, which said “we will bring democracy,” killed more than 3 million people.
Therefore, Ho Chi Minh says:
“THE HELP OF THE IMPERIALIST IS THE SMILE OF THE EXECUTIONER.”
b) According to Ho Chi Minh, national movements must rely on their own military power, popular support, and ideological determination.
c) Repetition of imperialist slogans is a sign of the colonial spirit.
Ho Chi Minh harshly criticizes colonial intellectuals who repeat French and US propaganda. Because repeating colonial slogans is opposition to national struggle and aims to legitimize colonialism.
Mazlum Abdi’s repetition of Trump’s slogans is a state of mind that has embraced colonialism.
5) According to Fidel Castro:
a) “Development together with imperialism” is impossible.
Fidel repeated this many times:
“America has no friends; it only has interests.”
From Fidel’s perspective, the claim that the USA will make Syria “great” is a complete lie.
The USA’s record:
Embargo on Cuba, occupation of Iraq, destruction of Libya, devastation of Afghanistan.
Looking at this picture, believing that the USA will do good for Syria is unrealistic and a position that turns reality upside down and legitimizes colonialism.
b) Repeating imperialist slogans is the decay of revolutionary spirit.
Fidel says: “Ideological surrender comes before military surrender.”
From Fidel’s thinking, Mazlum Abdi’s imitation of Trump and use of MAGA-like rhetoric is against the anti-imperialist line, adopts a dependent political language, and blurs the consciousness of the people.
The thoughts of revolutionary leaders are lessons drawn from the experiences of peoples’ anti-imperialist, socialist, and national liberation struggles.
These are the realities of class struggles.
We have been repeating these truths for years.
The ideologues of imperialism claimed in the early 1990s that imperialism had changed, that it was no longer the old aggressive imperialism, and that it would bring peace, prosperity, and democracy to the world.
Those who experienced ideological crisis after the destruction of socialism through revisionism fell under the influence of this propaganda.
At the head of these organizations stands the Kurdish nationalist movement.
Although the Kurdish nationalist movement at that time leaned on socialist rhetoric, since it was nationalist in essence, it easily fell under the influence of imperialist propaganda and became open to collaboration with imperialism.
The ideological foundations of people like Mazlum Abdi repeating imperialist discourse and defending cooperation with imperialism were laid in those years.
From the 1990s to the present day, calls were made to imperialists and the oligarchy, saying “come and solve the Kurdish question.”
They said, “We are not against US interests in the region.”
What they understood by the “solution of the Kurdish question” was opening space for themselves within imperialist hegemony.
When the Assad government was overthrown by imperialists, statements were made that “conditions suitable for Kurds have emerged.” Because with the fall of the Assad government, the doors of imperialist hegemony in Syria were opened.
Kurdish nationalists were confident that they would find a place for themselves within this space through cooperation with imperialism. For this reason, they called on the USA and asked it to remain in Syria.
Today, the negotiations and bargaining they conduct with the Sharaa government are also carried out under the guidance of the USA.
All of this—this collaborationist state of mind—leads Mazlum Abdi to say, “The USA will make Syria great.”
Yet imperialism, by its very structure, cannot make anywhere “great,” cannot bring democracy, cannot bring human rights. Because the structure of imperialism is based on exploitation and profit. The capitalist system is the domination of capital, that is, of capital accumulation.
The domination of capital means that raw materials, labor, production, and profit expand capital, and that capital establishes political and ideological hegemony.
THE CONTEMPORARY FORM OF THIS POLITICAL AND IDEOLOGICAL HEGEMONY IS THE TRANSFORMATION OF NEW COLONIAL RELATIONS INTO A WORLD SYSTEM.
No one who accepts these relations, no one who is part of these relations, no organization can represent the people or defend the interests of the people.
The only good and correct thing is to possess revolutionary ideology, to protect ideological and political independence, and to have the will to conduct a struggle for independence against imperialism.
Karl Marx says, “All history is the history of class struggles.”
After primitive communal society, humanity has lived in class societies up to the present day. The history from the slave system to today is the history of class systems and class struggles within these systems.
When evaluating today’s events, correct conclusions and attitudes cannot be determined without evaluating this history.
Class struggles are based on the separation and opposition of class interests.
What is in the interest of one class is opposed to the interests of another class.
That is, what is in the interest of imperialists is opposed to the interests of the people.
What is good for imperialism is bad for the peoples.
What is “great” for imperialists is horror for the peoples.
Recent history is full of proof of this: Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine…
Due to the periodic retreat of socialism, those who were ideologically weak—nationalists with a national appearance—easily fell into the claws of imperialist ideology. They voluntarily accepted becoming figurants in the fairy tale that imperialism would beautify the world.
These circles lost the most fundamental thing: the will to conduct a struggle for independence. They became voluntary soldiers of imperialist propaganda.
Yet even the most recent historical developments show that the only truth is that imperialism has not changed—that it remains aggressive, exploitative, and plundering imperialism.
The only correct and real response to this is to be revolutionary, to possess revolutionary ideology, to protect ideological and political independence, and to have the will to conduct a struggle for independence.
Kurdish nationalists have lost all of this. They replace reality with their own pragmatism. Pragmatism rejects historical and political realities and replaces them with its own small, immediate interests.
HOWEVER, THERE IS NO PEOPLE HERE; THE INTERESTS OF PRAGMATISTS DO NOT INCLUDE THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE.
Only revolutionaries who possess Marxist-Leninist ideology defend the interests of the people and fight and struggle for them.
Because the revolutionary is the people: the section of the people that has class consciousness, has not been contaminated by bourgeois politics, and has erected thick walls between itself and bourgeois ideology.
Its aim is to end the domination of the exploiting classes and to build the dictatorship of the proletariat—that is, democracy for the people.
Marxist-Leninist ideology, having been born within the struggle against the bourgeoisie, is irreconcilable.
In the light of historical and political realities, the liberation of the Kurdish people lies in revolution and socialism.
Nationalist collaborators like Mazlum Abdi cannot lead the Kurdish people to independence and freedom.
The liberation of all peoples lies in socialism.
SOCIALISM IS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE,
THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE,
THE ECONOMIC, IDEOLOGICAL, AND POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE PEOPLE.
