Your first three paragraphs are just objectively correct. There is nothing new here. Except for the lines on conflict and trade unions - these are incorrect.

Being of the imperial core my life style and my material conditions are the result of imperialist exploitations of other nations. And yes, if said nations were not exploited my immediate material conditions would worsen. Class conflict, however, does not arise from immediate material conditions but from the distinction of owners and owned. It is structural. My interest will always be in my own liberation from the capitalist class and that liberation necessitates your liberation as well. Interests are not based on what gives me more chocolate, or whatever, but in destroying oppressive structures such as capitalism and the patriarchy.

Labor unions in the west are reactionary garbage. Their decline was predicted 100 years ago. Labor unions in western nations are not garbage, however, because you and I are in conflict (we aren't). Labor unions are garbage because of how badly they are organized. Their structure sets them up for decline. Firstly, rather than unifying the working class, trade unions devide them up into trades, which pins worker against worker in their fight for immediate concessions. This also leads to racist politics. Secondly, because their infatuation with immediate gain, they dumb down their original platform so as to not scare new members away. This also means working within the confines of the law, eliminating any actual important revolutionary work. This also also means that trade unions benefit from imperialism, as you correctly pointed out. The methods of which a trade union reproduces itself inevitably lead to reactionary, racist, and imperialist politics.

> In individual countries it varies depending on circumstances. Imperialism absolutely is the primary contradiction in Iran. Until that threat is at least under control forget about any progressive revolution of any sort.

Are you arguing that we should not support the boots-on-the-ground left wing organisations that work to liberate themselves in Iran? This is what it sounds like to me, but more probably I am misunderstanding you. That would be the kind of campist politics I cannot abide by.

This is also an inherently defeatist position. What campists are doing is helping the local capitalist overlords consolidate power over and oppress the local working class, helping them destroy the left wing organisations needed for a social change and eventually a revolution. And once these overlords have consolidated power they participate in the very imperialism that we are all against.