Authentic left, and bogus left manufactured by the western ruling class to take aim at movements and governments of the south engaged in anti-imperialist resistance. Fake left acting as infiltrators to try and drive wedges between components of the anti-imperial resistance front.
The Western Left's War on the East
Ideas from the East are extremely dangerous to liberal modernity and the ruling class has carefully crafted an institutionalized "left" to wage its ideological war.
Dr. Hassan Ali
Nov 23
Aside from Marx, Engels, and Lenin, my greatest ideological influences have been the Revolutionary Nationalism of Huey Newton, Pan-Africanism of Nkrumah-Toureism, and Chinese Communism in the form of Mao Zedong-, Deng Xiaoping-, and Xi Jinping-Thought. Most recently, big influences have been the Islamic revolution of Iran in the form of Imam Khomeini and Ali Shariati, Eurasianism of Dugin, anti-imperialism of Putin, and Infrared’s Haz. The more my ideas develop by synthesizing these figures, the more I am harassed by white leftists who continue to attack me as “fascist.” My crime? Upholding national self-determination in all forms.
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a bit of a disordered piece called “New Age Colonizers,” in which I touched on the transformation of racism from an ideology based in pseudoscientific biology to one more centered in a socio-cultural realm. At the time, I was starting to come to a conclusion that I can explain in a more definite form today.
From Neoconservativism to Progressivism
The neoconservatives of the early 2000s were the primary political formation that upheld Western modernity through liberalism and the idea of universal human rights as a weapon of imperialism. Saving women and children from the patriarchal Muslim men in Iraq and Afghanistan was one of the more popular arguments made to justify invasion. It was quite effective. This
essence still exists but in a new
form: today’s “woke” Left. They will always ask snarkily,
what does woke mean? It very simply describes the socio-cultural positions of the left: liberalism and the idea of universal human rights. However, the new
form does have its unique particularities.
For example, the Left largely reduces the women’s question to nothing but the question of abortion. The rare times CPUSA and PSL will talk about women, they will talk about abortion. The women’s movement is unquestionably wider than that. It criticizes prostitution and gender ideology, demands more for motherhood, childcare, among other things. These women are dismissed as SWERF, TERF, etc. The mass of women who also question the position of totally unrestricted access to abortion (a very rare policy in the world as a whole) are similarly dismissed. However, the left will very strikingly go above and beyond to adress the women’s question in regards to Iran, for example. Suddenly the woman-haters are feminists!
Another clear example is the LGBT political movement. Most recently, Qatar came under criticism for not allowing LGBT imagery at the world cup. Arrogant Westerners knowingly flouted this rule and then took to social media to complain about the censorship and “authoritarian” crackdowns on their actions, without respect for the wishes of the host country. Suddenly, the Islamic world is back in the cross hairs of the West, but this time by the progressive left.
When beloved Chinese journalist, Chen Weihua, expressed agreement with Qatar’s right to it’s own rules, he was confronted with some really arrogant and deluded responses from Communism-experts in the West. To share a few highlights:
A core tenant of Marxism-Leninism, even acknowledged by these Leftists, is the right to national self-determination. What they don’t tell you is that this self-determination comes with a clause: abide by our values or don’t exist at all. In my previous organizing work, I noticed this in the context of a local Indigenous nation, the Shinnecock. They were in continuous legal battles against the township of the Hamptons, notoriously filled with summer homes of rich Manhattenite liberals. One of the issues was that the town would not let them build a casino
on their own legally adjudicated land. In one of our coalitions, which was put together as a sovereignty mission, leftists criticized the tribe for “engaging in capitalism.” Who are they to criticize a tribe fighting to do as they please on their own land?
I’ve noticed that anti-imperialist campaigning for Cuba has very strongly relied on fore-fronting Cuba’s cultural positions in order to win over leftist support into anti-sanction work, especially to appeal to Western academics. On a solidarity trip I took part in, the bulk of discussions during orientation revolved around culture, as if the participants were vetting the country. Cuba and it’s allies should continue doing whatever they find effective, that is not the issue. My question is, would Leftists support Cuba in the same way if Cuba had different cultural positions? I highly doubt it. Cuba would be victim to even further defamation than it already is. Cuba deserves national sovereignty no matter their social and political alignment. For that matter, the same applies to Syria, Iran, Russia, and so on.
Most ironically, leftists who make revolutionary nationalism a central thesis to their ideology, don’t hold any nationalism themselves. This nihilist void which emerges by either growing up in a “World Citizen” metropolis or by being completely detached from their own families and communities, is filled by a globalist (neoliberal) value system. This value system is institutionally reproduced by academia, NGOs, media, and corporate human resources. Most importantly, this value system has absolutely no influence from any of the figures I mentioned in the introduction. Rather, it is defined by the current iteration of European modernity, in the form of Anglo-Zionist reasoning and rationalism based in the individual free man within bourgeoisie democracy. Systems of governance that are practiced in Russia, China, or even Afghanistan, for example, exist outside of this and thus their value systems are invalid.
Returning to my way of thinking being attacked as fascism, the leftists who do this, are influenced by the New Left. Their ideologies, most notably postmodernism, are in full effect whether or not they realize it. The influences of Foucault, Judith Butler, the Frankfurt School, and others are deeply embedded in the thinking of the modern left. There is no question of this. If interested, Gabriel Rockhill’s work aptly summarizes some of this history. It’s ironic that those influenced by Western intellectuals have the audacity to deride Eastern ideas as fascist.
The Threat of the East
Ideas of the East are extremely dangerous to liberal modernity. Dugin’s daughter was murdered for writing, thinking, and speaking for the East. Dugin himself is one of the very rare authors to have his books totally banned from Amazon (though he is more than welcomed in Chinese spaces). You can’t buy books by him, only books about him. Iran is another major target because ideas of the Islamic Revolution not only unify the Iranian people against imperialism, but also find purpose in being a lifeline to other resistance movements such as in Palestine. Finally, the biggest threat of all is Chinese Communism. This ideology has nothing to do with modernity. Their thinking is a genuine continuation of their own indigenous philosophies, armed and transformed by Marxism-Leninism, an ideology which was proved in practice thus far solely by revolutionaries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Moving to a point that infuriates me the most, the United States is in a war with Russia. The self-proclaimed anti-imperialists in the United States continue to fence-sit at best, even though their own government is arming Nazis against a sovereign Russia. Why does Russia not earn their full support? “Putin is not a communist.” “The Communist Party of Russian Fed. is homophobic.” “Christian nationalism is fascism.” The last one gets me the most. If that is true, Islamic nationalism has to be fascist too and that puts all Islamic Republics, from Pakistan to a future liberated Palestine, in the crosshairs of the Left.
This is New Age Colonialism. Racism is no longer bound within differences in biology. This was proven wrong long ago and with plenty of evidence. We are all one people. Racism is now bound in culture, more specifically, in value systems on national and civilizational levels. The vanguard of this way of thinking is the left. In
a previous work, I wrote about how the diversity and inclusion project seeks to integrate peoples who come from ways of being outside of liberalism into liberal institutions, welcoming them no matter their race. In the case of Black Americans, they are welcome as long as they don’t support Trump or criticize media though it seems. Liberal law.
We Communists must draw a line of distinction from “leftism.” We are left by nature of our revolutionary position, but we cannot be allied with the racist institutional left.
Ideas from the East are extremely dangerous to liberal modernity and the ruling class has carefully crafted an institutionalized "left" to wage its ideological war.
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