I don’t know how many of us are familiar with what right wingers say. And by right wingers I mean the far-right wingers, not outright fascist yet, that believe in conspiracy theories but also distrust the government so much they don’t believe in it anymore.

So with that said, we don’t have the monopoly on anti-imperialism. And you’d be surprised sometimes how progressive right-wingers can seem on those issues.

You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve seen something from fox news on Twitter that, if I didn’t read the account name, I could agree with (e.g. US blowing up nordstream).

Or how many times (not that many, but still) conservatives liked one of our tweets as prolewiki – I mean, we have the red and gold, we’re called prole wiki, ML is in our bio… what more do they need?

But let’s not get carried away. We have to remember they are anti-imperialist for entirely different reasons.

Truthfully, they are contrarians. Remember the conspiracy theories in the first paragraph? This is what leads them to distrust authorities, which are politicians, capitalists, police, etc.

Contrarians, if I have to explain it, are people that always follow the opposite of what authorities tell them.

Their politically progressive stances (anti-imperialism, self-determination, etc) do not go any deeper. If we had a socialist gov they would be contrarians there too and follow the counter-revolution.

So the message I want to convey here is: be careful who you follow. Wolves in sheep’s clothing and all that.

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    Yes. They are usually very easy to notice though, since unavoidably in just few sentences they just say something racist, homophobic or anticommunist. Usually it’s like that:

    They: “EU must be destroyed”

    Me: “Yay”

    They: “Just as every other communist organization”

    Me: “Wait what”

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      Person: “the false zionist state state of Israel must be stopped”

      Me: yo

      Person: “the jews are taking over the world”

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        “The Holocaust was a Jewish plot to establish the state of Israel” (yes, I’ve actually run into that one)