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.
Some people on the right come to the same conclusions about certain things. It’s just the how and why they come to these conclusions that is fundamentally different from our ideology. As much as a non-argument the horse shoe theory is, there is some truth to it that we might sometimes sound the same on certain topics. Support for Russia is one of them, for example. The party in Belgium gets put on a pile with far right parties because of it. Only we reason from a very different POV.
Someone I know on the internet is an anti-imperialist socdem who can’t stand cpc
He says he doesnt like NATO but then parrots their talking points about 🇨🇳 and 🇰🇵 “muh hoomin whites” and “Both nato and seeseepee bad in their own ways”
He also believes that we need a “mix of capitalism and socialism” and prolly believes that socialism is when government enterprise
He used to be mean to me because I am an ML but he apologized
He does support 🇵🇸 but says they should not be “oppressive like 🇨🇳🇰🇵”, also compares 🇵🇸 to 🇺🇦
What centrism does to a mf