Hezbollah, Communitarianism, and Anti-imperialism

Anti-imperialism: National Versus Communitarian

By the turn of the twentieth century, the global composition and relative proportion of Karl Marx’s industrial proletariat was confined to a marginal Western minority. Outside the West, there was no comparable industrial development or concentration of the working class. The vast majority of production forces remained rural and agricultural, while the relation of production appeared to have preserved most aspects of feudalism. Marx has originally predicted that socialist revolution to take place in the most advanced industrial nations where the proletariat is most concentrated. But Marx’s prediction has never been materialized, while Russia, and despite its small working class, was the first to experience the triumph of a socialist revolution.

Vladimir Lenin needed to stir a great deal of agitation to place Marxism in the context of an international revolution. In an effort to justify revolutions in Russia and in undeveloped countries, he...