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Farah Mokhtareizadeh discusses the implications of campism and its effects on solidarity and political alignment.

Episode 387 of RevolutionZ has as its guest Farah Mokhtareizadeh, an incredibly traveled and experienced Iranian American scholar and organizer who I first encountered via her article Vijay Prashad's Iran. She shows how if your politics begins and ends with “against the U.S.,” you can unintentionally end up defending the very forces that crush workers, feminists, and dissidents. We discuss what is sometimes called "campism," a mindset that organizes solidarity around geopolitical alignment ra...

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Host: Michael Albert

Guest: Farah Mokhtareizadeh

Topics covered

• politics
• geopolitics
• solidarity
• workers' rights
• feminism
• dissidents

Keywords

• campism
• solidarity
• geopolitical alignment
• workers
• feminists
• dissidents
• Iran

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Places: Iran

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