Campism

Campism is an application of lesser of two evils to global power politics: A first-campist or second-campist believes their camp, for all its flaws, is better than its opposition.

Although a small ruling class had taken control, the Soviet Union had made (social revolutionary) gains for workers and should be defended from outside aggression.

In a sharp reversal after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Soviet Union pursued a popular front strategy from 1934 to 1939 and again from 1941 to 1945, in which communists attempted to build broad anti-fascist alliances.

[5] In contrast, other Trotskyists (such as Sam Marcy of the Workers World Party[6]) became "second campists" who supported the Soviet Union, such as during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

This NAM was ideologically heterogenous, and member countries received support from both American and Soviet benefactors, but the movement leaned toward socialism.

[4] Many nominally socialist countries, such as Egypt (led by Nasser), Yugoslavia (Tito), Indonesia (Sukarno), and Cuba (Castro), took leading roles.

In Castro's Havana Declaration of 1979, he summarized the NAM's purpose as "struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics.

[citation needed] Others also support China, Vietnam, Laos, and Venezuela, despite their adoption of socialist market economy-type policies.

[citation needed] In the modern communist second-campist view, there are two real camps: Other socialist organizations, especially those inspired by Maoism, shifted toward Third-worldism or Maoism–Third Worldism and labor aristocracy theory.

A "preoccupation" with "abstract" questions of foreign policy "has been historically corrosive for the left, leading to bitter fights over precisely those issues which we are least able to affect".

Modern "anti-imperialist" second-campists often support undemocratic, interventionist, and non-socialist countries, including Russia (Putin), Iran (Khamenei), and Syria (Assad).