many of these states and their governments are openly hostile to communist elements, but a communist party actively opposing their government would risk destabilising it and then playing themselves directly into the hands of the imperialist states. an indefinite “united front” would be desirable, especially in countries like iran, but it seems all leftist organisations in these states have either decided to fully support the government in everything, becoming controlled opposition (KPRF in Russia) or western puppets like (MEK) or whatever the fuck the “leftist opposition” in russia, belarus is.
The way I think about it, the more I think revolutionary defeatism only made sense within the context of WWI. Seriously, try to apply revolutionary defeatism to WWII:
Are British socialists supposed to wave around “neither London nor Berlin” signs while the Blitz is happening?
Are French socialists supposed to stay home while the Nazis overthrow the French republic and establish a collaborating regime in its place?
Are USian socialists supposed to draft polemics about how the IJN bombing Pearl Harbor was just inter-imperialist rivalry and that USian socialists should focus on overthrowing the regime in Washington DC instead?
There’s a reason why the CPC completely stopped hostilities with the KMT as soon as Japanese imperialists invaded Manchuria, even going so far as to wear nationalist uniforms.