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I wonder how the pro-Putin left will deal with the increasingly unambiguous alliances between Russia and the far right, including the recent meetings between Putin's people and the German AfD: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/09/tommy-robinson-meets-elon-musk-father-moscow #RedBrown

This new German party is "hard left" only by name. This Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance is more of a red-brown party with a rancid nostalgic mindset of Germany's 70s, when everything was in order and white industry workers were the unchallenged subjects and the world was an easy place without all this climate and woke stuff.
Good: they draw votes from the openly fascist AfD. And the German Left Party "Die Linke" they split off from got finally rid of these people.
Bad: their racists, backwards discourse might permeate the minds of older social democrats. And the last thing we needed was a right-wing workers party.

@rvps2001

#BSW #BündnisSahraWagenknecht #SahraWagenknecht #DieLinke #RedBrown #Querfront

43 percent of #AfD supporters consider voting for the #BündnisSahraWagenknecht #BSW

"The alternative to the alternative? How Germany's far left could limit far-right gains in the European elections
A new party set up by former leftist Sahra Wagenknecht will likely claim some of Germany’s 96 seats in the European Parliament when voters go to the polls in June"

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/how-the-far-left-could-limit-farright-gains-in-the-european-elections

#RedBrown #RedBrownConvergence #querfront #SahraWagenknecht
#EUelections #GermanPolitics #immigration

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#RedBrown
"Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), would get into parliament with 5% support if there were an election now"

Party loyalty of #AfD voters is solidifying

Sept 2023, 80% of supporters said they didn't care parts of the AfD were classified as right-wing extremist by Germany's domestic intelligence agency. Number now stands at 66%

Only 43% of AfD supporters polled said they could imagine voting for any of the other major parties, down from 54% in September 2023.
#FarRight

This is a really useful resource/collection of resources. There are a bunch of quick passages that really grabbed me, but this in particular stands out:

“The danger is not that these organizations themselves will fully subsume the left, but that the uncertainty they sow spreads widely enough to seriously destabilize solidarity efforts of all kinds.”

I have a friend/colleague who has been warning about these kinds of crossover movements for a long time, but the “Hands Off Milosevič!” types and the occasional Larouche dork used to seem so marginal as to be completely meaningless. I didn’t really see the harm until the war in Syria started. In retrospect, feel really foolish and naive, but I really just didn’t think so much shitty analysis could gain so much traction (thinking primarily of the hacks at The Grayzone, but also their many enablers). And while a lot of people seem to recognize that they’re hacks, many also can’t entirely get pas the possibility that “hm, maybe they have a point”.

And if anything, the problem has likely gotten worse since then. We’ll see, for instance, what happens in Germany if Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party really gets off the ground. Hard to imagine a more useful idiot for the AfD…

At any rate, the author indicates that this is a work in progress, so it’d be worth bookmarking and reading some of the links over time.

#RedBrown #Wagenknecht #Larouche

https://ni.hil.ist/@trash_witch/111820987149316441 Research guide on "red-brown alliances" and other collaborations between left and far-right, version 1.0: It's nowhere near complete but I posted it anyway

...is now online.

https://breakingpatterns.noblogs.org/projects/on-red-brown-alliances/

Another piece on #ClareDaly & #MickWallace - apologists for #ButcherAssad & #PutinWarCriminal

You can speak up for Palestinians & defend Human Rights universally, without valorizing #RedBrown convergence.

@BylineTimes

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/09/11/irish-independent-politicians-excuse-kremlin-crimes-and-oppose-belarus-sanctions/

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"the claim can be found elsewhere on the internet, including publications critical of Israel like Electronic Intifada and GrayZone, and in messaging groups like Monte’s Uncensored Truths, which previously had been focused on pandemic-related gripes about vaccines and conspiratorial ideas about “globalists” ushering in a so-called New World Order. Right-wing Holocaust deniers also have latched onto the claims". #ElectronicIntifada #RedBrown #ConspiracyTheorists

@heretical_i She is a bonkers conspiracy theorist who advocates for far right & #RedBrown convergence. She is an apologist for Putin/ #Duganist Russian war criminals, & of course a 9/11 crank (because of course she is). https://thedailybanter.com/2017/06/11/caitlin-johnstone-anatomy-of-an-alt-left-conspiracy-nut/

A good little piece on the #Strasserite #CaitlinJohnstone & web of #RedBrown scum that she is part of - #ConsortiumNews #WikiLeaks #Assange #ThirdPositionism #antisemitism

https://medium.com/@yoavlitvin/caitlin-johnstone-a-performing-strut-in-a-wikileaks-and-consortium-news-web-83f8afe36133

Noticed some ex-University lecturer posting bonkers article from Caitlin Johnstone, claiming 'Western Empire' is bombing Yemen to defend 'Israel's genocide in Gaza'.
We should of course be taking to the streets in outrage at what Israel is doing. But associating ourselves with #RedBrown scum is not the way. Johnstone is no friend of justice, democracy or freedom. Here is one good critique of her - from 2022 on her #Putin / #Duganist position on #Ukraine https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/11/a-closer-look-at-the-prose-of-caitlin-johnstone/ #PutinKhuylo (1/2)

Sahra Wagenknecht’s new left conservatism

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2023/11/sahra-wagenknecht-germany-new-left-conservatism

A fairly detailed piece by Jeremy Cliffe on #Wagenknecht. What she calls #Linkskonservatismus. Cliffe highlights some of her key ideas that have deeper roots than any kind of current opportunism.

I think her new alliance is a dangerous moment for those of us committed to internationalist, democratic socialism, & the Marxist left.

I see some parallels with the whole Living Marxism/RCP/Spiked here in UK.

#RedBrown #querfront

Now that a certain #Pagan “Leftist” is back on Twitter, a reminder about #RhydWildermuth by a writer who discusses some massive problems with him better than I right now.

#RedBrown #Neopagans #Ritona #GodsAndRadicals
https://mythoughtsbornfromfire.wordpress.com/tag/rhyd-wildermuth/

The Political Legacy of Lyndon LaRouche (w/ Matthew N Lyons)Download This Episode

This week, we’re sharing an interview with Matthew N Lyons of Three Way Fight blog about the political legacy of Lyndon LaRouche, cultic leftist turned fascist US political figure from the 1970’s through his death in 2019. For the hour, Matthew and I talk about the network of organizations and publications of the LaRouche movement, some of their approaches toward peeling adherents from the left, antisemitic conspiracy theories he innovated, methods his movement used to control followers and some of the ripples of LaRouche you can find today. We also speak briefly about the Three Way Fight book due out in the spring via Kersplebedeb and PM Press.

https://traffic.libsyn.com/thefinalstrawradio/tfsrpodcast-20230813-LyonsOnLaRouche.mp3

Our past interview with Matthew on Christian Nationalism(s): https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/20/matthew-lyons-on-christian-nationalisms/

Lyons articles on LaRouche (in addition to the chapter in Insurgence Supremacists on the movement):

• “The LaRouche Network’s Russia Connection” (July 2015) –http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-larouche-networks-russia-connection.html
• “Meditations on a Dead Fascist” (March 2019) – http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2019/03/meditations-on-dead-fascist.html

Books critiquing LaRouche from an antifascist position:

• Dennis King’s Lydon Larouche and the New American Fascism: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307091850/http://lyndonlarouche.org/newamericanfascism.htm
• Kevin Coogan’s (as Hylozoic Hedgehog) Smiling Man From A Dead Planet: The Mystery of Lyndon LaRouche: https://archive.org/details/smiling-man-from-a-dead-planet-the-mystery-of-lyndon-la-rouche-by-hylozoic-hedge

Some current political figures appearing to relate to the legacy of LaRouche’s red-brown politics:

• Jackson Hinkle: https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Jackson_Hinkle
• showing how he publishes with EIR, a LaRouchite journal: https://twitter.com/MaupinAFA/status/1537791876106952705
• Caleb Maupin: https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Patriotic_Socialists

Related:

• A longer study of red-brown politics on LibCom: https://libcom.org/article/investigation-red-brown-alliances-third-positionism-russia-ukraine-syria-and-western-left
• Sophie From Mars on “left” conspiracy theories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZyIjBxxpTY
• Sophie speaking on I Don’t Speak German podcast about this topic: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/idontspeakgerman/IDSG_Ep120_Caleb_Maupin_and_the_Conspiracy_Left_with_Sophie_From_Mars.mp3
• brief write-up about the Rage Against The War Machine rally from IGD: https://itsgoingdown.org/dungeons-dugin-red-brown-alliance-interview/
• The Right Podcast talking about RATWM rally: https://audioboom.com/posts/8249669-rage-against-the-war-machine-explained
• Vice covering the idea of #MAGACommunism: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qk4b/what-the-hell-is-magacommunism

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• Unreleased Instrumental 1 by DJ Muggs x MF Doom from Deathwish

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#fascist #history #maga #magacommunism #patsoc #redbrown #usa

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2023/08/13/the-political-legacy-of-lyndon-larouche-w-matthew-n-lyons/

@bigMouthCommie Who knows what effect it will have on his support. It only takes a few 1000s..sometimes a few 100 votes to let in a GOP candidate.
The more serious point is, his politics are terrible #RedBrown #confusionism - giving cover to scum like #Putin, #Assad ists, #Maduro et al.
He even has the shill for Putin, Jill Stein as him election manager!!

Rich, tenured, right wing, "PMC" xenophobe, Catherine Liu explains her national socialist stance. Anti-immigrant, closed borders, and for the working class of your own nation only. "If you're gonna have universal healthcare, you can't have open borders, you can't." On the Jacobin Show, December, 2021.

One of the best take downs of Liu's book _Virtue Hoarders_ is up at libcom: "The PMC Meets the Tucker Carlson Left:" https://libcom.org/article/pmc-meets-tucker-carlson-left

#CatherineLiu #VirtueHoarders #Nationalism #Xenophobia #ClassCollaboration #NationalSocialism #RedBrown

re: #Ukraine
I have been told 1000 times by Lefties in the last 8+ months, 'watch Mearsheimer!' – I did, and I am like 'Meh?!, ok, whatever'

(Below) Mearsheimer today with Hungary's right wing PM Viktor Orbán

Such principles and such a nice guy, eh? FFS.

/jd

#Mearsheimer #Ukraine #RedBrown