the strategy of opposing a liberal order through red-brown populist collaboration makes the left a willing accomplice.
An article which originally appeared on the SPLC website but was pulled for controversial reasons mentions in its opening some important notions necessary to understand some of the more troubling aspects of recent left politics.
(I have omitted any discussion of the controversial content related to a discussion of Syrian political groups. There will be no doubt a sectarian online battle over this article if the Twitter comments are any indication. I have included those elements interesting to me and which do not address issues that some claim are defamatory)
This SPLC.org article has been pulled with some controversy… This is a cached link YMMV: (The multipolar spin: how fascists operationalize left-wing resentment March 09, 2018 Alexander Reid Ross)
The Ross article is worth your time if only to disentangle the reason why Steve Bannon, a conservative Catholic, is OK with using Prexy Dennison as the vehicle for the RWNJ ethno-nationalism that is also supported by the Russian Orthodox, ex-KGB Vladimir Putin, aside from their worship of money and power.
The article is useful in retrospect to remind oneself of those moments when a splinter group appeals for participation with questionable ideological reasons. It unfortunately has all the problems of needing to understand the sectarian squabbles of political groups and their histories of fragmentation. But it provides some good news...
It can help explain the cynicism that the troll-bots on both sides of the Atlantic can deploy and can also explain the triggers used in the 2016 election to drive voters and ads.
Syncretic media sites create forums where views become blurred and potentially appropriated.
It also explains the disinformation used by other RWNJs in trying to disinform authorities about actual antifascist activity and promote RWNJ thuggery and hatred.
For those confused by the idiots putting a Hitler ‘stash on PBO posters who also seem to share political objectives with white supremacist nazis, this article helps put that into perspective.
And as a prosaic example it allows us to understand even Lord Dampnut’s discourse and how his cluelessness is captured and even captivated by misunderstanding some important terms.
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The problem with multipolarism, aside from assuming polarity as a useful prescription, may be that it supports not the emergence of Russia as a world power but the rise of the Kremlin’s authoritarian conservative political ideology.
The problem with multipolarism, aside from assuming polarity as a useful prescription, may be that it supports not the emergence of Russia as a world power but the rise of the Kremlin’s authoritarian conservative political ideology. In this, multipolarists tend to support other authoritarian regimes and movements from Iran to Syria to Italy. Although anti-imperialists may believe that these measures land them on the right side of history, taking stock of the fascist movement suggests that the strategy of opposing a liberal order through red-brown populist collaboration makes the left a willing accomplice.
During his recent tour of Europe, disgraced former Trump strategist Steve Bannon declared “Italy is in the lead.”
Amid the historic resurgence of the Italian far right that returned right-wing populist Silvio Berlusconi to prominence, Bannon fantasized about “the ultimate dream” of unifying the anti-establishment Five Star Movement with the far-right League (formerly the Northern League) through a populist movement. Bannon’s international vision of nationalist populist movements is locked into the Kremlin’s geopolitical ideology of a “multipolar world.”
The League is tied through a cooperation pact to Putin’s Russia, and its deputy in charge of relations with foreign parties, Claudio D’Amico, explicitly called for a “multipolar world” in Katehon, a think tank created by fascist ideologue Aleksandr Dugin.
Following the ideological line Dugin put forward in his text, Foundations of Geopolitics, Katehon calls for uniting a “Eurasian” bloc in constant struggle against “Atlanticist” countries. For Dugin, the “21st century gamble” is to create a “multipolar” confederation of “Traditionalist” regional empires united under Russian sovereignty that will overthrow the “unipolar” empire of “postmodern” democracies.
This Venn diagram suggests that certain syncretic groups exist as containers for the intersection of right and left wing groups, ideologies.
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