“MAGA Communism” went viral on social media last month, and its supporters think it’s a serious theory that can reshape American politics. Critics say it’s a dangerous grift. What gives?
How the fuck does hexbear have zero media coverage about it when these clowns can get on vice?
I have the (completely unsupported by actual research) feeling that stuff is even worse than that. Saying that this is an op to discredit leftism assumes a liberal consensus that doesn't exist in the United States. It hasn't for a while now. MAGA people are the internally coherent mainstream of the right wing, not a fringe belief. More likely the struggle is between those willing to do Fascism and those who don't wanna pay for it. Fascism is the mass politics conception of society as a body politic, it doesn't just reinforce hierarchy it's whole point is to co-opt certain welfare policies. But by God that means taxes and infrastructure spending. Liberals in the US are the party of a managerial elite and they don't believe in that sort of thing. The country as a whole lives off printing dollars and lowering taxes, a status quo brought about by Conservatives more than 4 decades ago. I think this is MAGA communism nonsense is just the right wing version of when politics flounders because it's too online to get anywhere.
Fucking up the most basic understanding of Marxism is the point. This is what fascism looks like. Economic populism + reactionary social policies that entice a decent segment of the working and petite bourgeoise classes. It might have to change it's name because the word communism is so toxic in the states, especially among the people who this kind of politics appeal to. But actual real fascism will look like this when it takes power in the states.
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I have the (completely unsupported by actual research) feeling that stuff is even worse than that. Saying that this is an op to discredit leftism assumes a liberal consensus that doesn't exist in the United States. It hasn't for a while now. MAGA people are the internally coherent mainstream of the right wing, not a fringe belief. More likely the struggle is between those willing to do Fascism and those who don't wanna pay for it. Fascism is the mass politics conception of society as a body politic, it doesn't just reinforce hierarchy it's whole point is to co-opt certain welfare policies. But by God that means taxes and infrastructure spending. Liberals in the US are the party of a managerial elite and they don't believe in that sort of thing. The country as a whole lives off printing dollars and lowering taxes, a status quo brought about by Conservatives more than 4 decades ago. I think this is MAGA communism nonsense is just the right wing version of when politics flounders because it's too online to get anywhere.
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Fucking up the most basic understanding of Marxism is the point. This is what fascism looks like. Economic populism + reactionary social policies that entice a decent segment of the working and petite bourgeoise classes. It might have to change it's name because the word communism is so toxic in the states, especially among the people who this kind of politics appeal to. But actual real fascism will look like this when it takes power in the states.