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.
The right is being absolutely opportunistic in this regard. It is basically local small capital thinking that bringing down the hyper elites in Washington and dismantling their international grasp will level the playing field for themselves so as to again out compete those elites and likely replace them if the market is willing.
For all their anti imperialist bluster, it boils down to them not being the absolute peak beneficiaries of the colonial project. Listen to them condemn globalism and then INSIST that taxes need to be cut, government spending needs to be cut, and regulations need to be rolled back. They have no vision of state craft whatsoever and uses the sheild of “liberty” as an excuse to undermine any collective and popular moment that MIGHT use the means of the state to correct course for the masses.
And on a finer point. Im getting DAMNED fed up with leftists saying the right has a point or that the right’s “look what you made me do” populist politics is at the fault of progressivism.
It’s enough to make someone buy means of self defense, prepare for open violent exchange with fascists and opportunistic bad faith tailist leftists.
And low key, it’s really starting to look like everyone is trying to come up with their own excuse to have an open season on society’s most vulnerable.