Hassan Maarfi Poor

Translated by Farhad Sharifi

Realpolitik, or current politics, refers to the set of political, ideological, strategic activities and tactics that exist within the framework of the current social and political reality and, in their totality, do not conflict with the policies of governments at the local and global levels. In the imperialist capitalist world, Realpolitik is nothing more than alignment and collaboration with exploitative, predatory, imperialist, racist, and misogynistic policies. In its entirety, it is nothing but representing this or that segment of capitalist ideology and implementing the policies of state and supra-state [or transnational] bodies, bourgeois institutions and organizations, cartels and international monopolies, NGOs, and other bourgeois-imperialist networks. Realpolitik, in effect, means limiting political work and activity to the framework of capitalist society and the capitalist mode of production.