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/