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.
My observation of many rightists is that, what a lot of them refer to as “globalism” is largely the same imperialism that us Marxists talk of. The big difference however, is that rightists believe the problem lies only with a specific group of oligarchs and that capitalism should be fair were it not for the few powerful elites who have corrupted this system, whereas Marxists view the entire system as the problem and understand it is designed so that a powerful elite can take control as they have. Rightists also fail to see past the culture wars bullshit which keeps up infighting amongst the proletariat
I dont quite find this to be the case. I think their problem with globalism is exactly the same as the old classical conservatives had with the old school liberals. Too much change too fast. “Our values are being eroded by the eternal march of history and its because liberals keep changing everything up! We are heading for mob rule!” They dont see past culture wars because it is one of their top strategic priorities. They want elites with white/colonial, patriarchal, values so that the colonial empire can be properly maintained. It is a question of how the colonial empires should be ruled. Their opposition to imperialism is opportunism.