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Tag: Syncretic Politics

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Rethinking the Syrian Revolution, by Robert Francis – 2 September 2025

How the Left Misread Syria The Syrian Revolution began in the context of the Arab Spring. While there were many reasons for protest, people took

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Philippe Corcuff and Ben Gidley on Confusionism – 11 May 2025

Text of the presentation by Philippe Corcuff Text of the presentation by Ben Gidley

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The Concept of Confusionism: A Tool for Thinking About the Links Between the Crisis of the Left and the Success of the Far Right in France And… Elsewhere?, by Philippe Corcuff – 11 May 2025

Presentation at a Left Renewal network webinar on confusionism. 1 – Introduction I would like to introduce the concept of confusionism, which I formulated for

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Understanding Confusionism and Diagonalism, by Ben Gidley – 11 May 2025

Presentation at a Left Renewal network webinar on confusionism. A few months into Donald Trump’s presidency, widely considered to be the most right-wing administration the

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“The Roots of the Reactionary Bloc Lie in the Supposed ‘Democratic’ Camp”: Interview with the Slovak Collective Karmína – 18 October 2023

Can you tell us a bit more about Karmína? What is your origin story? What do you do? How do you define yourself as a

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“New McCarthyism” Petition Illustrates Western Leftists’ Failure of Internationalism, by Brian Hioe – 8 August 2023

A recent exposé in the New York Times on tech multimillionaire Roy Singham, who funds various tankie media outlets, organizations, and institutions such as the

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Tulsi Gabbard’s Krishna Consciousness. Interview with Nitai Joseph – 4 May 2023

What does it mean for a prominent American politician to come into power as the sleeper cell of an eccentric Hindu-American cult? Does she act

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The Big Business of Uyghur Genocide Denial, by Alexander Reid Ross and Courtney Dobson – 18 January 2022

A New Lines investigation reveals a network of charities funneling millions into left-wing platforms that take Beijing’s side on the genocide allegations — and they’re

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SWERF and TERF: The Red-Brown Alliance in Policing Gender, by Daphne Lawless – 26 August 2019

Late last year, a veteran of communist politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand decided to contribute to a march for the traditional working-class demand for reproductive rights

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The Red-Brown “Zombie Plague” – Part 3, by Daphne Lawless – May 2018

Germ 1: Political confusion and despair I now wish to return to the question of the agent of the Red-Brown zombie plague, that is: what

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The Red-Brown “Zombie Plague”: How Fascist Ideas Are Becoming Popular on the Left – Part 1, by Daphne Lawless – May 2018

Introduction: Conspiracy theories and “pod people” When I wrote “Against Conservative Leftism” just over two years ago, I considered it disturbing that socialists would rally

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The Red-Brown “Zombie Plague” – Part 2, by Daphne Lawless – May 2018

How did we get here? For an infection to spread, you need both a germ (a virus, a bacterium, a spore or similar) and a

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The Multipolar Spin: How Fascists Operationalize Left-Wing Resentment, by Alexander Reid Ross – 9 March 2018

During his recent tour of Europe, disgraced former Trump strategist Steve Bannon declared “Italy is in the lead.” Amid the historic resurgence of the Italian far right that returned

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An Investigation into Red-Brown Alliances: Third Positionism, Russia, Ukraine, Syria, and the Western Left, by Vagabond – 15 January 2018

This long post started as an investigation about the Left and Syria which I started after I read the Sol Process blog’s publication of three

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Against “Conservative Leftism”: Why Reactionary Responses to Neoliberalism Fail, by Daphne Lawless – February 2016

If you had told a socialist or a radical of a few decades ago that Marxist socialists would not only be defending the Union Jack-emblazoned

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