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Far-Right, Left-Right. These kind of labels are created by less intelligent people who can't psychoanalyse other people. It's so much easier to come up with conclusions about a person who told you that he's a patriot or gay for example, but the reality is much more complex than you think.
Anyone who dissents from neo-liberalism. In the West today, you're allowed to be anywhere from "socialist" to center-right on economics, and center-left to far-left on social issues.
So, for instance, if you believe that "a woman is an adult human female" you are a "right wing extremist" because that is transphobic. Even if you are a left-wing, Marxist feminist, if you do not accept the assertion "trans-women are women" you are a "far right extremist."
On economics you have a little bit more freedom, because the West is a mercantile civilization and multi-national corporations are the nexus of power. But even the most "far left" Bernie Sanders-style "Democratic Socialists" aren't even actually socialist. They typically are not proposing the government own and control the means of production, they just want more generous welfare programs - which is not just compatible with neo-liberal capitalism, it's actually quite supportive of neo-liberal capitalism.
In 2019, the Emmanuel Goldsteins are "populists" and "nationalists." "Populism" really means "popular with disorganized masses, unpopular with organized elites." "Nationalism" is anything that interferes with the free flow of capital and labor in Western nations.
Even as recently as the 1990s, a far left figure like Noam Chomsky could point out that many of the "communist" movements in Latin America and Asia were not Marxist in any real sense, merely nationalist movements that wanted independence from Western colonialism.
Today, those assertions by Noam Chomsky would be considered "right wing populist nationalism" if they were applied to European nations, the USA and Canada, and Australia and New Zealand.
So, for instance, if you believe that "a woman is an adult human female" you are a "right wing extremist" because that is transphobic. Even if you are a left-wing, Marxist feminist, if you do not accept the assertion "trans-women are women" you are a "far right extremist."
On economics you have a little bit more freedom, because the West is a mercantile civilization and multi-national corporations are the nexus of power. But even the most "far left" Bernie Sanders-style "Democratic Socialists" aren't even actually socialist. They typically are not proposing the government own and control the means of production, they just want more generous welfare programs - which is not just compatible with neo-liberal capitalism, it's actually quite supportive of neo-liberal capitalism.
In 2019, the Emmanuel Goldsteins are "populists" and "nationalists." "Populism" really means "popular with disorganized masses, unpopular with organized elites." "Nationalism" is anything that interferes with the free flow of capital and labor in Western nations.
Even as recently as the 1990s, a far left figure like Noam Chomsky could point out that many of the "communist" movements in Latin America and Asia were not Marxist in any real sense, merely nationalist movements that wanted independence from Western colonialism.
Today, those assertions by Noam Chomsky would be considered "right wing populist nationalism" if they were applied to European nations, the USA and Canada, and Australia and New Zealand.