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This set of regional forces has allied with Palestinian asymmetric militia in their guerrilla war against Israeli settler-colonialism, and particularly the siege on the Gaza Strip. We consider their post-October 7 activities, as well as the Palestinian militia, in more detail in Part II of this article. These forces have distinct orientations and internal disagreements regarding models for economic development but converge on the active defense—or achievement—of political sovereignty as necessary for the well-being of the region’s peoples. We have argued that the current strategies of US imperialism make it necessary to re-visit the theory and practice of national sovereignty and the role of self-defense in socialist construction. Given that the US is carrying out a policy of state collapse and de-development in major Arab population centers, which is a testing ground for broader US methods of income deflation, destabilization, de-development, and de-statization, forces defending state sovereignty cannot simply be dismissed as “bourgeois nationalist,” “state-capitalist” or using kindred typologies. Such descriptions may have elements which are formally correct. But they block from view the strategic landscape which is contoured by the current stage of US accumulation, wherein “waste” is an input into accumulation. The systematic attacks on Iranian-Arab state capacity, the policy of de-development, and the military, political, and legal encirclement ought to be understood as part of accumulation-through-waste and the attack on working peoples on a world scale.

Reconsidering contemporary accumulation strategies allows us to understand the conjunctural role of defense of state sovereignty in the current context, as a positive good in and of itself, and as providing a platform for planning policies which can lead in the direction of expanded accumulation (as with Yemen’s 2019 national document). While the limits of such visions can and should be explored, any such critique must depart not from fancy but facts: US-Israeli operations only allow national capitalist development on certain terms within countries fully integrated into their security and financial umbrella. In that context, the contemporary axis plays a limited but real liberatory role in staving off state collapse in the countries near and around Palestine and shielding populations’ social reproduction and popular well-being against the reaper of accumulation-through-development.


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