Struggles of direct producers in backward regions are the primary socialist site

Evidence

Second, if the universalist character of the answering dialectic – namely, socialism – implies an international character of the revolutionary project, the fundamental and irresolvable contradiction of global capitalism – the fact that it cannot provide for the vast majority of the direct producers in the backward formations – equally implies that it is the struggles of those direct producers in the backward formations which constitute the primary site for struggles towards the realization of the socialist project. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 595