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I tissaidtheLeftandtheRighthaveconvergedintheircommonsupportfor
mass immigration, global citizenship, and their hatred of European ethno
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nationalidentities.Butwhichsidehastheupperhandinthisconvergence?

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I will start with Paul Gottfried's argument about how the once dominant
Traditional Right, which dominated the Republican Party before WWII, was
replaced in subsequent decades by a Neoconservative version tacitly in
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agreementwiththemulticulturalvaluesofaNewLeft,whichitselfhadreplaced,
in the 1960s, an economicallyoriented Socialist Left. Gottfried explained that
while certain old conservative impulses continued within the Republican Party
against excessive government spending, affirmative hiring, and imposition of
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boardwiththepromotionofdiversity,openborders,andthespreadofAmerican
values around the world. They too eagerly began using the label racist against
anyone who questioned the merits of integration and who spoke about how
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immigrationwasdestroyingtheethnoculturalidentityoftheUnitedStates.

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convergence made sense to me when I first encountered his writings some five
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influences. In exchange for giving up its radical views about socializing
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production,focusingmoreonredistributionofincome,theLeftgainedacultural
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vitalityallowingittopushthrough,graduallyandpeacefully,stepbystepwithin
everyinstitution,newdefinitionsofthefamily,gayrights,feministvalues,black
civil rights, diversity in education, and much more, capturing the hearts and
minds of the general population, pushing traditionalists on the defensive even
withintheRepublicanParty.

Inhisbook,AfterLiberalism:MassDemocracyintheManagerialState(2001),
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souls via multiple educational and social programs imposed from above by
centralized authorities, mass welfarism, backed by a whole host of laws,
regulationsandspeechcodesdedicatedtothemodificationofbehaviour,trained Subscribe
bureaucratscapableofexactingmajorpenaltiesagainstemployeesdeemedtobe
in violation of antiracist, antisexist and antigay codes. Their cultural
bureaucratic power was such that it no longer mattered, increasingly from the
1980s on, if a majority conservative government was elected somewhere in the DONATE TO US
West,thismanagerialregimewasfirmlylodgedwithinthestateapparatusboth
atthefederalandthelocallevel.

ButwasthisNewLeftalsoinchargeofglobalization,transnationalcorporations,
the WTO, Asia Pacific, the EU? Is the Left the driver in the intensification of
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interactionsamongnations,thecreationofaworldwidelabourforce,themental
dynamics of the transnational capitalist elites, IGOs and INGOs, the spread of SupportCECatnocostby
informationacrossnationalboundaries,theimages,ideas,goods,andlifestyles purchasingAmazonproducts
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disseminatedworldwide?

BoltonandCapitalistGlobalization
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Intryingtoanswerthisquestion,IsooncameacrossKerryBolton'sbookBabel
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Inc.: Multiculturalism, Globalisation, and the New World Order (2013),
deservedly praised in the AltRight media. Bolton addresses the convergence of
"leftist internationalism" and "corporate globalism" directly. On the surface it
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mayseemthatheseesanideologicalconvergenceinwhichboththeRightand
the Left play more or less equally powerful roles, agreeing on the essentials, Feb2016(8)
pushingthesameprogramofglobalizationandimmigration,andopposingthe
same enemy, ethno nationalist parties. Just as major corporate heads such as
Goldman Sachs were eagerly funding humanitarian migration programs into RECENT ARTICLES
Europe, the Left was endorsing arguments about the supposed benefits of
immigrationforWesterneconomies. Brescia,Italy:Suicideofthe
Lioness?

Still, my sense is that, for Bolton, the real engine of change and control in this TheAbsurdDemographic
ClaimsofCenturyInitiative
convergenceisthecapitalistRight.Bolton,inafashionsimilartoENRthinkers,
views capitalism as the major force shaping modern politics and destroying CenturyInitiative:Make
Canadaa"GlobalNation"
national loyalties and traditional cultures all around the world. Focusing throughaMassiveIncreasein
primarily on American foreign policy, it is the Right he sees in charge, with Immigration
Democrats merely following a slightly more moderate Neocon foreign policy OnceAgaintheObvious
agenda in the Middle East. US plutocrats, the Trilateral Commission, George SolutiontoVancouver's
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He does write about how these corporate forces use Leftist labels about "good
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global citizenship," promote refugee programs, and various forms of welfarism ShouldWeTrustJonathan
Haidt'sMoralJudgments?
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acrosstheWest,withsomecorporateheadssuchasSorosfullyendorsingLeftist
causes,butthebottomlineforthem,inthewordsofPeterSutherland,ascited
by Bolton, is "mobility of capital, goods, and information at low cost and
lighteningspeed...internationalmigration[ratherthan]outmodednotionsabout MOST READ RECENT ARTICLE
humanmobility."Thecapitalistright,nottheleftistheengineofglobalization,
theonecontrollingtherealpowerdynamicsofglobalization."Theraisond'etre TheSuicide
Missionofthe
ofglobalization,"asBoltonsays,isneitherhumanitarianismnordiversityperse
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He agrees with Karl Marx that capitalism is inherently an internationalising IWC
economy,citingthesewellknownwordsfromMarx:

Nationaldifferencesandantagonismbetweenpeoplesaredailymore DID YOU KNOW

andmorevanishing,owingtothedevelopmentofthebourgeoisie,to
...thatthehighestbuildingsin
freedom of commerce, to the world market, to uniformity in the theMiddleAgeswerethe
mode of production and in the conditions of life corresponding Gothiccathedrals.

thereto.

Bolton, of course, opposes this internationalization, whereas Marx saw it as a QUOTE

necessary stage in the creation of an international working class that would Opponentsfancytheyrefute
identifywithcommunistidealsratherthannationalcultures.ButforBoltonthe uswhentheyrepeattheirown
Left, no less than the Right, is trapped by "economism," or the notion that opinionandpaynoattentionto
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human progress is achievable essentially through international economic JohannWolfgangvon
developmentandwelfarism.AsTomSunicwordsit: Goethe(17491832),Maxims
andReflections

Bothcommunismandcapitalismshareacommonideologicalthread,
namely, a common belief in progress and common hatred of all
racial,ethnic,andterritorialidentities.

The economism the Left shares with the Right is driven irresolutely by global
capitalism.Forallthetalkaboutleftistculturalvalues,theplightofrefugeesand
"goodglobalcitizenship,"whatmattersfortheRightistheeconomicmobilityof
capital and labourers across national borders. Socialist movements themselves
haveneverbeenabletoescapethepowerofmoney.WhilesomeLeftistsmaybe
sincereintheirideals,theseidealsaremerelya"faade"fortheRight,awayto
enhance the attractiveness of global capitalism. Leftists who take these ideals
seriouslyare"usefulidiots."

TheLeftIsinChargeofEuropeanMorals

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Ihavedifficultyacceptingthisinterpretation.Thereisnodenyingtheimmense DeliveredtoYour
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earningsandthecreationof"an identityless mass of producers and consumers
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with no roots and no attachments." But the Left is in charge of culture, and
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whoevercontrolsculture,ultimatelycontrolspolitics.

ItisoddthatENRthinkers,thesameoneswhoemphasizemetapolitics,makeso
muchovertheeconomismoftheRightanditsimpactontheLeft.Shoulditnot
beobviousfromthestartthattheglobalizationofcapitalismisnotuniquetothe
West but a welcomed reality in all advanced nonWestern countries, Japan,
SouthKorea,China,India,Mexico?Innoneofthesecountriesdowefindeither
Leftist or Rightist parties arguing that strong cultural identities are an
impedimenttothespreadofglobalmarkets.Innoneofthesecountriesistherea
"far right" opposed by the establishment because in all these countries
ethnoculturalidentitiesaretakenasnormalfactsofthenation'sexistence.None
of these countries view nationalism as a threat to their capitalist expansion.
Bolton'sresponsetothisrealityisthat"itistheWestfromwheretheglobalists
operate...where money values predominate." But pointing to America's greater
influence does not invalidate the pervasiveness of international capitalism in
Asia.

Bolton, and Tom Sunic, do use cultural terms to identify American global
capitalism,otherwordsbesideseconomism,suchasrationalism,Enlightenment
values,andegalitarianism.Sunichascomeupwiththetermhomoamericanus
to designate certain cultural attributes peculiar to Americans, their excessive
Puritan moralizing, the selfrighteous manner in which they have sought to
export their culture, not just material goods, but their ideal that all men are
created equal, even developing a "public discourse [that] teems with
communistic phrases like 'sensitivity training,' 'political correctness,' and
'affirmative action'." But if Sunic believes that homo americanus is more than
economism,andisaboutcertainAmericanculturaltraits,thenthecentralagent
inAmerica'sstyleofglobalizationisnotcapitalism.

I think it would be more accurate to look for the ways in which Western
capitalistglobalization,notglobalizationassuch,hascomeunderthetutelageof
cultural Marxism. There are more cuckservatives in the capitalist right than
usefulidiotsintheleft.

The process of globalization is about capitalist internationalism but not

necessarily about the breakup of national identities. As much as national
identities in Asia have been transformed under modernization and abstract
economictransactions,thereisnothingaboutthemobilityofcapitalatlowcost
and lightening speed that necessitates the miscegenation of peoples. Capitalist
growth,aswellasclassicalliberalism,freedomofthepress,andrationalism,are
all consistent with "antimigrant populism" and "far right nationalism." Don't
believeWesternglobalelitesbeholdentoaNeoconconceptionofglobalization.
The hostile elites who promote a Neocon form of globalization have willingly
accepted the cultural revolution of the Left. The Left controls the terms of the
debate, the key questions, political movements, cultural organizations, and
indeed all the universities, primary and secondary schools, journals and
publishinghouses.

The narrative of the Left on globalization runs along the following lines: FollowUs
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thesocialmedia,travel,ormigration.Itisaprocessthatbringsustogetherand
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ofdiseases,conflictsbetweennations,globalpoverty,terrorism,asproblemsof
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all humans sharing a "common home." Power has become "deterritorialized"
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withthespreadoftransnationalcorporations,IGOsandINGOs,andsothereisa
need for global governance and the breakdown of nationalism. As members of
this increasingly transnational world, Europeans must think of their civic
responsibility not in terms of their national interests, but in global terms as
global citizens, identifying themselves as members of "the international
community." They have a "moral obligation" to respond to violations in the
humanrightsofallthemembersoftheglobe,assistthosethreatenedbyfamines
inAfrica,tsunamisinAsia,floodsandearthquakes.

It is the Left that has effectively made use of the moral implications of
globalization, and formulated philosophical arguments about what Robert
Putnam happily calls "a new, broader sense of we" seemingly emerging with
globalization. It is the Left that understands how globalization may offer new
ways to construct human identities away from traditional references, creating
new opportunities for individuals to view their identity as something to be
constructed within a global setting, giving way to hybrid identities. While the
Right naively praises national anthems at football games, the Left carefully
worksovertheconceptof"hybridity,"atermborrowedfrombiology,butwhich
servesitsefforttopushforththeideathatculturesandracescanneverbeseen
in isolation, that European nations have always been "connected to the globe"
andthatnationshavealwaysborrowedfromeachotherandthatitisnaturalfor
Europeannationstoberaciallyhybridized.

Don't Leftists complain about the "uneven structure" of the world capitalist
system?Thisisjustonemoreopportunitytoactontheglobalstageasaforcefor
thegoodofhumanity,againstthe"undemocraticorganizationoftheWTO,"for
the guarantee of labour standards by corporations, for "good governance in
Africa," for an end to inhumane neoliberal economic policies. Meanwhile the
Rightisstuckwitheconomism.TherightmayuseLeftistvaluesasafaade,but
humansneedmoralreasonsfortheiractions,noteconomicreasonsalone,andit
istheLeftthatisinchargeofourcontemporarymorals,showcasingitsidealsas
theidealsoftheglobe,fighting"Westernimperialism'sneverendingwarsonthe
people of the Middle East, Central Asia, and Africa," arguing that the African
migration to Europe is "rooted" in the slave trade, in "unfair" trade practices,
support for "corrupt and autocratic" governments in Africa. It is the Lefts that
teaches millions of impressionable students that their countries "control an
unfair proportion of global wealth" and that they are thus morally responsible
forsolvingglobalpoverty.

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programmesintoEuropecannotbeseeninhumanitariantermssincecapitalists DeliveredtoYour
reallywant"tobreakdownbarriersinhibitingthefreestpossibleflowofcapital Inbox!
and labour across the globe." But the only reason George Soros and Peter
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Sutherland are knowingly using Leftist ideals is because these ideals do have a
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hold over the moral conscience of Europeans. The image of the boy washed
ashoreonabeachledtoanoutpouringofcharityandsolidaritywithmigrantsin
Europe,inawaythatwouldhaveneverbeenthecaseinanyothernonEuropean
nation,becauseEuropeansareemotionallycontrolledbytheLeft.TheLeftisthe
one in charge of charitable organizations, Migrant Offshore Aid Station,
Mdecins Sans Frontires, Refugee Council, UNICEF, British Red Cross. Of
course, the Left consists of many groups with different morals, political
strategies and personalities. Some at the top like Soros are manipulators of
humansufferingtobringabouttheirpoliticalends,whereasmanyatthebottom
are not even concerned with politics but have been socialized since birth to
associatediversitywithgoodness,andEuropeannationalismwithNazism.The
pointisthatwhicheverwayonecutsit,theLeftdominatesthemoraldiscourse,
theconcepts,intellectualapparatusofWesternglobalization.

The AltRight needs to build a counter narrative of principles, ideas, feelings,

images, and morals, rather than concentrating merely on the economics of
globalization.

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