Tendance CoatesyDavid Miller, Political Confusionism gone mad.
Former ‘academic’, the Nutters’ nutcase.
2024, Guardian, “Judges say unfairly dismissed academic David Miller’s views on Israel should be protected by antidiscrimination laws.
The belief that Israel’s actions amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are “worthy of respect in a democratic society”, an employment tribunal has concluded in a landmark decision.
In February the tribunal ruled that Prof David Miller was unfairly discriminated against when he was dismissed by the University of Bristol over allegations of making antisemitic remarks, in a decision the Union of Jewish Students said set a dangerous precedent.”
It takes no imagination to guess what Miller’s been saying about the attack on ambulances in Golders Green.
Or this…
“This despicable Zionist, Zohran Mamdani, and his vile underling Leila Bozorg, are reveling in the blood of Iranian schoolgirls, whose murder from the skies they describe as bringing “freedom, opportunity and autonomy” to Iranians.”
How to explain this trajectory, other than the suggestion that Miller has ‘issues’ ?
Confusionism emerged as a political concept in France, with echoes in the French-speaking world, within the anti-fascist milieu in the early 2010s. This large book, La grande confusion. Comment l’extrême droite gagne la bataille des idées (The Great Confusion. How the Far Right Is Winning the Battle of Ideas), Philipe Corcuff 2020, was reviewed on Tendance Coatesy when it was published.
Amongst many themes covered – at that time the fall out from Brexit and the development of national sovereigntist ideas that bridged right and left – was this. Political confusionism is “a kind of ‘bricolage’ of ‘anti-system’ politics, shifting towards the far right or red-brown fronts.”
Corcuff has continued to plough this fertile soil. He writes, on the Left Renewal Blog, in 2025 , “Confusionism refers to the development of interference and hybridisation between the postures and themes of the far right, the classical right, “Macronism”, the moderate “republican” left or the radical left, but it also affects ecologist and anarchist circles.“
Amongst the key concepts are:
* Identitarianism means reducing people and groups to a main, homogeneous, closed identity, such as a national identity or a religious identity; a positive identity that is valued or a negative identity that is denounced. We need to distinguish identitarianism from identity; identitarianism is a kind of identity pathology. It refers to a locked-in identity. There are a variety of identitarianisms. Far-right nationalism is identitarianism. The nationalism of Putin’s regime is an identitarianism. Islamo-conservatism, in both its legalist and murderous jihadist poles, is politico-religious identitarianism, and so on and so forth. There are also forms of inverted identitarianism in critical social movements.
* Confusionism thus refers to the development of interference and hybridisation between the postures and themes of the far right, the right, the centre, the moderate left and the radical left.”
David Miller expresses a type of confusionism with features of its own: ‘anti-Zionism’, ‘Anti-imperialism’, and just plain old hatred of Jews.
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