The Third World War No Friends Allowed

I have traced our inability to take the initiative against the Left to, a) an unwillingness to face the fact that we are at war, and b) the predominance of “the Afro-Asian Strategy.” That designation derives from a geopolitical perspective, and I use it to mark the contrast with “the Western Strategy.” The Afro-Asian Strategy is oriented on the less developed regions of the world—Africa and Asia especially, but also Latin America— and on the “neutralist” governments within those regions. From an institutional point of view, the Afro-Asian Strategy is more or less equivalent to a “United Nations Strategy,” since the UN is the arena in which the underdeveloped mass is symbolically encountered.

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I have traced our inability to take the initiative against the Left to, a) an unwillingness to face the fact that we are at war, and b) the predominance of “the Afro-Asian Strategy.” That designation derives from a geopolitical perspective, and I use it to mark the contrast with “the Western Strategy.” The Afro-Asian Strategy is oriented on the less developed regions of the world—Africa and Asia especially, but also Latin America— and on the “neutralist” governments within those regions. From an institutional point of view, the Afro-Asian Strategy is more or less equivalent to a “United Nations Strategy,” since the UN is the arena in which the underdeveloped mass is symbolically encountered.

Plotting the Line