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both presidential candidates are indulging in racist xenophobic bilge against the chinese and asian americans and now people are yelling "go to china" to nurses? what a surprise! who could've seen that coming!
btw anti-communist derangement remains one of the key motivating forces behind right-wing and liberal politics. that's why the deranged "OMG CUBA" shit was pulled after bernie's nevada win and both shitlibs and alt-righters cast capitalist china as some rebirth of the evil empire
where does the alt-right and alt-centrist completely converge? cuba, venezuela, bolivia, and yes, also china. not just in the US either. bolsonaro and other fascists as well as liberals cast them as part of some grand global communist conspiracy to take over the world
where do they also converge? defending israel and saudi arabia's far right genocidal apartheid regimes. basically both alt-right and alt-centrist ideology are nothing but expressions of the material reality of US and western imperialism. the fishhook never lies
to be clear their anti-communism is purely libidinal. they have no understanding of what communism is in terms of its history and ideology. it remains at the surface level of cold war "hammer sickle red flag bad" propaganda. it's a unifying mythology of racist hatred of the Other
if you look at its expression in alt-right and alt-centrist discourse, it's always closely intertwined w/ nativist and nationalist sentiments: the communist is cast as the foreign evil "Other" whereas the anti-communist is rooted in a Western tradition of Reason and Civilization
in its classical form this anti-communism was the chief motivating force and unifying mythology and resentment underlying nazi ideology, closely intertwined with anti-semitism: "Kulturbolschewismus", "jewish bolshevism", and, more recently, "cultural marxism" were its products
and again, just look at how the contemporary alt-right taps into that tradition with its "cultural marxism" hysteria, and how alt-centrists with their concomitant hysteria about "coddling sjw cultural marxists who dominate academia" play into the same themes
I'll end on this. the most ironic part of the smear campaign against corbyn was that the fake charge was actually true of his alt-right and alt-centrist opponents. in 2016 his labour opponent was casting him as a "rootless cosmopolitan", directly tapping into that toxic discourse
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