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<nowiki>#</nowiki>MAGACommunism is taking the internet by storm, and it isn’t going anywhere. Everyone bearing witness to this phenomena appears puzzled. How can MAGA and COMMUNISM be united? For one is ''clearly'' ''far-right'', and the other ''far-left''. Perhaps it’s like the ''syncretic'', third position politics of fascism, like National Bolshevism? That, of course, assumes the proper significance of a ''political spectrum''. | [[MAGA Communism|<nowiki>#</nowiki>MAGACommunism]] is taking the internet by storm, and it isn’t going anywhere. Everyone bearing witness to this phenomena appears puzzled. How can MAGA and COMMUNISM be united? For one is ''clearly'' ''far-right'', and the other ''far-left''. Perhaps it’s like the ''syncretic'', third position politics of fascism, like National Bolshevism? That, of course, assumes the proper significance of a ''political spectrum''. | ||
All political analysts, ideologists, thinkers, and ‘political content creators’ since the incipient populist era of the 2010s have hitherto used, as a heuristic tool to navigate Euro-American politics - some kind of ‘political spectrum.’ | All political analysts, ideologists, thinkers, and ‘political content creators’ since the incipient populist era of the 2010s have hitherto used, as a heuristic tool to navigate Euro-American politics - some kind of ‘political spectrum.’ | ||
== The Political Spectrum == | == The Political Spectrum == | ||
All political strategy begins, as an almost axiomatic premise, with an understanding of ‘right-wing’ and ‘left-wing’ forces. Thus, one often gets views as the following:<blockquote> | All political strategy begins, as an almost axiomatic premise, with an understanding of ‘right-wing’ and ‘left-wing’ forces. Thus, one often gets views as the following:<blockquote> | ||
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* ''How can Nazism come from the Democrats? The Democrats are not as '''right wing''' as the Republicans, and Nazism is '''far right'''.'' | * ''How can Nazism come from the Democrats? The Democrats are not as '''right wing''' as the Republicans, and Nazism is '''far right'''.'' | ||
</blockquote>Of course, this neglects to explain how supposedly ‘right wing’ forces appear to outflank leftists all the time, assuming positions, ''successfully at that'', that appear to be associated with the extreme-left, like the ''unconditional anti-interventionism'' espoused by figures like Ron Paul, or the discourse against free market neoliberalism associated with the nascent 2016 Trump campaign. | </blockquote>Of course, this neglects to explain how supposedly ‘right wing’ forces appear to outflank leftists all the time, assuming positions, ''successfully at that'', that appear to be associated with the extreme-left, like the ''unconditional anti-interventionism'' espoused by figures like Ron Paul, or the discourse against free market neoliberalism associated with the nascent 2016 Trump campaign. | ||
The contrary is also true. If Breitbart were to release an article expressing a favorable view of eugenics, it would be derided as a form of far-right Nazism. But if MSNBC were to release that same piece, attempting to rehabilitate it from the perspective of climate change, it would pass under the radar of ‘leftists’ without question. Such unthinkable scenarios happen all the time. The Western Left ''routinely'' defends arming Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (i.e. as in, ''some don’t even deny they are Nazis'', but defend arming them anyway) with high-grade military equipment, as the lesser of two evils in the face of Russia. | The contrary is also true. If Breitbart were to release an article expressing a favorable view of eugenics, it would be derided as a form of far-right Nazism. But if MSNBC were to release that same piece, attempting to rehabilitate it from the perspective of climate change, it would pass under the radar of ‘leftists’ without question. Such unthinkable scenarios happen all the time. The Western Left ''routinely'' defends arming Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (i.e. as in, ''some don’t even deny they are Nazis'', but defend arming them anyway) with high-grade military equipment, as the lesser of two evils in the face of Russia. | ||
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The bourgeoisie, in their vain attempt at achieving universal formal political unity, finds itself under siege by a kind of terrorist which has no regard for the modern purity of form at all. That is ''the partisan''. | The bourgeoisie, in their vain attempt at achieving universal formal political unity, finds itself under siege by a kind of terrorist which has no regard for the modern purity of form at all. That is ''the partisan''. | ||
== The Partisan Revolutionary == | == The Partisan Revolutionary == | ||
The political spectrum can be defined as the metaphysical theory of ''political alignment''. Its formalism consists in the fact that it makes no distinction between political alignment in ''actual reality'' - that is to say, what position one bares in relation to real political power, real political contradictions, etc. - and political alignment as formally represented by abstract values and principles. | The political spectrum can be defined as the metaphysical theory of ''political alignment''. Its formalism consists in the fact that it makes no distinction between political alignment in ''actual reality'' - that is to say, what position one bares in relation to real political power, real political contradictions, etc. - and political alignment as formally represented by abstract values and principles. | ||
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Politics around the world have become globalized, which is to say ''Americanized''. Leftism, even now in Latin America, where left-wing partisans had been the most formidable opponents to American imperialism - has increasingly come to mean the same thing. German leftism today is indistinguishable from the American kind, meanwhile, the ‘far-right’ partisan movements like the AfD attempt to recuperate natively East German Communist traditions. And this tendency is rapidly spreading to every corner of the globe. A decisive confrontation within modern politics is brewing in nearly every country which represents the greatest political realignment of the modern era, ''not the least including in the United States itself''. | Politics around the world have become globalized, which is to say ''Americanized''. Leftism, even now in Latin America, where left-wing partisans had been the most formidable opponents to American imperialism - has increasingly come to mean the same thing. German leftism today is indistinguishable from the American kind, meanwhile, the ‘far-right’ partisan movements like the AfD attempt to recuperate natively East German Communist traditions. And this tendency is rapidly spreading to every corner of the globe. A decisive confrontation within modern politics is brewing in nearly every country which represents the greatest political realignment of the modern era, ''not the least including in the United States itself''. | ||
== The Red American Sun == | == The Red American Sun == | ||
In the United States, the ''MAGA Movement'' has come to be defined by being the exclusive ''American form of partisanship''. As is well known, the distinction between the Republicans and Democrats, in nearly every election cycle, has never amounted to any real ''political'' distinction on the basis of Clauswitzean absolute enmity. Partisanship, that is ''impassioned political partiality'', has made its definite return in the United States solely in the MAGA movement, which has again reintroduced real political enmity and distinction to the belly of the globalist beast itself. Having its origins in a rather accidental confluence of circumstances, in Donald Trump’s presidential election in 2016, the movement has become the host of every possible real counter-hegemonic ideological tendency within the Untied States. | In the United States, the ''MAGA Movement'' has come to be defined by being the exclusive ''American form of partisanship''. As is well known, the distinction between the Republicans and Democrats, in nearly every election cycle, has never amounted to any real ''political'' distinction on the basis of Clauswitzean absolute enmity. Partisanship, that is ''impassioned political partiality'', has made its definite return in the United States solely in the MAGA movement, which has again reintroduced real political enmity and distinction to the belly of the globalist beast itself. Having its origins in a rather accidental confluence of circumstances, in Donald Trump’s presidential election in 2016, the movement has become the host of every possible real counter-hegemonic ideological tendency within the Untied States. | ||
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That being said, the development of the modern Right is at least tangentially related to the emergence of the MAGA movement and the partisan itself. And so on that basis, it - as well as the immediate (and failed) right-wing ideologies which attempt to give articulation and consciousness to the MAGA movement - is necessary of worthy consideration. | That being said, the development of the modern Right is at least tangentially related to the emergence of the MAGA movement and the partisan itself. And so on that basis, it - as well as the immediate (and failed) right-wing ideologies which attempt to give articulation and consciousness to the MAGA movement - is necessary of worthy consideration. | ||
== The Impossibility of Rightist Politics == | == The Impossibility of Rightist Politics == | ||
The problem with all of today’s ‘Rightist’ politics is that, when it becomes a definite ideology and definite community - with very few exceptions - it stagnates, paralyzes and immobilizes the partisan politics it attempts to give articulation to. Rather than act as a conduit of movement, it acts as a conduit for the formation of enclosed community. | The problem with all of today’s ‘Rightist’ politics is that, when it becomes a definite ideology and definite community - with very few exceptions - it stagnates, paralyzes and immobilizes the partisan politics it attempts to give articulation to. Rather than act as a conduit of movement, it acts as a conduit for the formation of enclosed community. | ||
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Xi Jinping of China was recently named the ‘greatest threat to the open society’ by George Soros. And while many believe that China is allied with the globalists, that is only because they had attempted to use it, following China’s reform and opening up, to prolong their economic reign. They underestimated and did not take into account that the Communist Party had outsmarted them, and it is now readying itself and scrambling itself for an all-out-confrontation. All the typical fake ‘conservative’ jingoism and rhetoric will then be propagated by the ruling establishment - between ‘Western civilization’ and ‘the Asiatic Chinese,’ between ‘freedom loving Americans’ and the ‘Communist Chinese.’ All of this is nothing short of opportunism seeking to dupe and extinguish the partisanship of the MAGA movement, and hijack it into a vehicle for the same globalists it is, in its heart of hearts, attempting to fight against. They realize that attempting to enforce woke values by force hasn’t work, so they are going to start pretending to be conservatives to dupe the people into fulfilling the same ends. | Xi Jinping of China was recently named the ‘greatest threat to the open society’ by George Soros. And while many believe that China is allied with the globalists, that is only because they had attempted to use it, following China’s reform and opening up, to prolong their economic reign. They underestimated and did not take into account that the Communist Party had outsmarted them, and it is now readying itself and scrambling itself for an all-out-confrontation. All the typical fake ‘conservative’ jingoism and rhetoric will then be propagated by the ruling establishment - between ‘Western civilization’ and ‘the Asiatic Chinese,’ between ‘freedom loving Americans’ and the ‘Communist Chinese.’ All of this is nothing short of opportunism seeking to dupe and extinguish the partisanship of the MAGA movement, and hijack it into a vehicle for the same globalists it is, in its heart of hearts, attempting to fight against. They realize that attempting to enforce woke values by force hasn’t work, so they are going to start pretending to be conservatives to dupe the people into fulfilling the same ends. | ||
== Conclusion == | == Conclusion == | ||
For our part, the Communists disdain to conceal their aims. We plainly believe that the MAGA movement requires its own political party. While we remain sympathetic to Republican candidates genuinely aligned against the establishment, the majority of the Republican Party remains firmly entrenched and in the hands of the same globalist ruling class. We hope the great leaders and figures of the MAGA movement will endure the coming re-alignment, and join forces with all genuine partisan forces into forming a real ''working class'' third party. Trump, for his part, while having been a real political outsider, is being blackmailed, is embroiled in politically-motivated lawsuits and is being targeted by the FBI. Whatever happens to Trump, the spirit of the MAGA movement must survive, because 2016 was only the beginning. We believe the MAGA movement has the potential to be turbo-charged into a revolutionary movement by, of, and for the American working class. There is no other choice for us American MAGA Communists. | For our part, the Communists disdain to conceal their aims. We plainly believe that the MAGA movement requires its own political party. While we remain sympathetic to Republican candidates genuinely aligned against the establishment, the majority of the Republican Party remains firmly entrenched and in the hands of the same globalist ruling class. We hope the great leaders and figures of the MAGA movement will endure the coming re-alignment, and join forces with all genuine partisan forces into forming a real ''working class'' third party. Trump, for his part, while having been a real political outsider, is being blackmailed, is embroiled in politically-motivated lawsuits and is being targeted by the FBI. Whatever happens to Trump, the spirit of the MAGA movement must survive, because 2016 was only the beginning. We believe the MAGA movement has the potential to be turbo-charged into a revolutionary movement by, of, and for the American working class. There is no other choice for us American MAGA Communists. |