While you may think that the Communist Party not running candidates means there is no activity surrounding the party, you would be incredibly wrong in said assessment. As the party has frequent clashes within themselves and the broader leftist movement, even in the modern day.
One such example comes from this month, where five Twitter accounts formatted in a similar style claimed to be the accounts of the state affiliates of Indiana, Oregon, New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Michigan. The issue is, each state affiliate I mentioned already has active Twitter accounts, and each of the other accounts was started up this year. They all have affiliations with each other and share similar branding
These accounts in question are run by followers of a newer online movement called MAGA Communism, a movement started by online creators Jackson Hinkle and Haz Infared that seeks to “Unite Marxists and MAGA to overcome the oligarchical globalists & the deep state”. Such a movement has been accused of simply being another rebrand of fascism or reactionary politics; not helped by the fact they admire fascists like Aleksandr Dugin and other fringe reactionary figures like Lyndon LaRouche.
There are nationalistic communists, e.g., Stalinists and Maoists, who depart from orthodox Marxism and Trotskyism in rejecting the need for an international workers’ movement and revolution to protect the proletarian state from hostile capitalist nations.
But whereas the far-left statist wants a radical break with the past and seeks to subvert relationships of authority independent of and in competition with the authoritarian state, the far-right statist mythologizes the past and venerates social hierarchies to promote a culture of subservience to the authoritarian state.
I haven’t researched NazBol-ism in any detail, but I don’t see how this tension is resolved in a single ideology or have any idea what form NazBol propaganda would take. If the libertarian has a diametric opposite, though, it has to be the elusive National Bolshevist.
Anti-communism is in America’s patriotic bloodstream. Even if most blue-collar MAGA populists couldn’t define communism or socialism if their lives depended on it, they know it’s un-American and that the elitists who despise them also despise capitalism, so it can’t be all bad.
“MAGA Communism? Why not just go National Bolshevist”
Thats essentially what MAGA Communism is. They won’t say it, but that is what it is
Haz and his ilk have also waxed poetic about “patriotic communism” whatever the hell that is. Some of these folks have said that George Washington and other slavers were “revolutionaries.” What these folks are doing is nothing more than a grift designed to make money off of the stupid.
MAGA Communism? Why not just go National Bolshevist (a party/ideology popularized by Dugin himself)?
On a serious note, have the MAGACs even read the Manifesto? Do they not see how contradictory it is to advocate for what they are doing while using a political label/brand created by a corporate business owner?
Learn something new every day.