In the United States, there are a growing number of Marxist-Leninists that are attempting to appeal to Christian values, patriotic symbols, and tout themselves as conservative. The idea behind this trend is that conservatives are working-class whites mostly, who are growing increasingly frustrated with this capitalist system, and thus make prime targets for agitprop. The problem here is that these communists fail to actually address the problems that working-class white people deal with every day, from discrimination based on their race to declining economic prospects in the face of open borders. These communists are trying to shove class consciousness down the throats of people that are already resistant to it on one hand, while writing about white privilege, and imperialism on the other hand. What these fools fail to realize is that conservatives aren’t going to become Marxist-Leninists any time soon, conservatives don’t want to be called colonizers by limp-wristed runts pastier than them, and if you refuse to address their actual social problems, you’re not going to build up the rapport to even get them thinking about class in new ways. While it may seem that once again, communists are out of touch, it also shows just how these people see emerging trends and try to play to them, comfortable with warping their appearances and appeals to emotion in order to play working people like pawns. At the end of the day, until you grow balls by pointing out what’s actually wrong with society and work a blue-collar job, you’re neither conservative nor proletarian and thus, have no hope of winning that demographic over.
The problem with American politics, and perhaps politics in general, is that political views are a result of lifestyles and this has to do with constructivism. The ideas that you develop in your youth culturally, from what you learn at home to what you learn in church to what you study after school, shape the values that you carry into the world with you and when these values collide with things that they don’t mesh well with, you construct new ideas to deal with what you’re experiencing. In the realm of politics, political trends are just the masses reacting to new changes in society by advocating new things based on what they’ve observed and what they thought beforehand. Communists like Caleb Maupin that try to appeal to conservatives will never be successful because they aren’t from the conservative flock, have no idea how they think, and don’t experience the problems they do, while trying to push onto them concepts that directly clash with what conservatives believe in America. When we look at Hitler, who came from a middle-class family, fought in World War One with distinction, and struggled with his professional career in a society that did not want his traditionalist art, what we see is a conservative who struggled to come to terms with the degeneracy of the Weimar Republic. Unlike Caleb Maupin, who applauds North Korea and China on everything they do while trying to promote himself as a patriot, Hitler did not have that problem because he was everything he said he was. Hitler didn’t have to capitalize on trends foreign from his person, Hitler did not try to sell-out, and when Hitler talked about things, it came across as far more authentic and profound because his mind had already developed the rationale behind it that other conservatives could follow. While progressives and socialists like to paint conservatives as dumb, the truth is that conservatives just think different things because they’ve come from different classes, different cultures, and have to deal with different things. Slapping the Hammer and Sickle on an American flag will not endear conservatives to your cause, because despite what you think, conservatives aren’t wooed by pageantry and symbolism but rather by what those things stand for in their eyes.
More often than not, conservatives love their country’s symbols and institutions because they’ve benefitted from them. The military serves as the largest training institution in the country and has enabled millions of people to go on to college afterwards, while giving them valuable skillsets that they could take into civilian careers as well. Conservatives don’t love the military because they love war, but rather because the military has provided millions of conservatives with middle-class lives in return for their service. Similarly, conservatives have often criticized the ATF and other institutions, because these organizations fail to provide for conservatives while restraining them from living how they want due to what happens mostly in urban areas. Conservatives may love America, but it’s because America has traditionally provided them and their ancestors with a high quality of living standards and freedoms, and as America continues to change both institutionally and politically to reflect the changing and often newly hostile demographics, conservatives are going to change in turn. The government today is largely progressive, discriminates against white Americans, and fails to protect the industries that provide the livelihoods of those that lean conservative. As someone who was raised conservative, the American flag resembles a hollowed-out carcass to me, of dreams that have failed to materialize in my generation, of idealism that has been perverted by hostile forces that we’ve allowed into our society, and it gets less and less positive year by year in my eyes. The disillusion that conservatives have with the current government are going to continue to accumulate and develop, whether people like Biden or Trump come into office, because these things are going to continue to go unaddressed by a system whose rulers do not share their interests, cultural values, or struggles with conservative proletarians.
Biden calling run-of-the-mill conservatives fascist isn’t going to make them stop evolving in an anti-American, revolutionary direction and existing socialist groups, who have been founded and directed by the children of upper-middle class liberals who grew up in coastal cities, will not be able to capitalize on this trend because in genuinely trying to appeal to these disillusioned conservatives, they’d have to give up everything they believe and stand for. The building revolutionary sentiments in the conservative base today are not going to stop building, and eventually conservatives that have evolved a new socialism in response to this environment will arise, bringing with them new ideas and solutions to the problems that white Americans face in a country that hates them. These people will be genuine and will be fearless, because they will have less and less to lose as the capitalists continue to deprive America’s citizens of their careers, their properties, and their lifestyles in the pursuit of limitless extortion. While Biden may condemn Trump supporters as fascists, the truth is that these people have yet to connect the cultural and economic problems they face with capitalism and still largely support the current system, not knowing exactly where it went wrong. This dynamic will not last forever, as more and more the promises of fascism begin to appeal more and more to people disenfranchised under capitalism. The idea behind “socialism with American characteristics,” where Marxist-:Leninists drape an American flag over themselves in an attempt to appeal to conservatives, will never take off. The ideas behind national socialism, where disillusioned proletarians come to realize that socialism in their own form has more to offer them than the capitalism they once loved, will gradually come to dominate the conservative base. The socialism to form on the “right” in America will have as much legitimacy, if not more, than any current socialist groups in America because it’ll be proletarian in origin, be distasteful in the eyes of bourgeois society, and will attempt to solve the problems of actual workers, rather than advance the dictatorial dreams of progressive ne’er-do-wells.
It is worth noting that National Socialism, as invented by Hitler, evolved from the National Syndicalism espoused by Mussolini, which in turn evolved out of Georges Sorel’s views on syndicalism. Georges Sorel’s ideas were recognized by Lenin as a worthy addition onto Marxism and influenced Lenin greatly in his own thinking, to the extent that Lenin may have been influenced more by Sorel than Marx in how to go about establishing socialism. At the end of the day, National Socialism and Marxist-Leninism evolved out of the same Sorelian kernel and share the same heritage. While Lenin would disagree vehemently with everything that Hitler stood for, given Lenin’s very progressive stances and bourgeois background, Stalin mirrored Hitler in many ways in regard to social and economic policies. From topics such as birth rates and the role of women in the country to topics such as the Jewish question, Stalin and Hitler, having hailed from a more conservative and proletarian background, saw things in the same light and those that call themselves Marxist-Leninists, idolizing Stalin while demonizing Hitler, are usually the idiotic children of wealthy parents that never thought to actually read into what they believed. Stalin and Hitler both talked about the Soviet Union joining the Axis powers, and while talks fell through due to disagreements over who would get what out of the arrangement, it is worth noting that both Stalin and Hitler regarded one another as members of the same socialist community. While you can dispute this and argue that these talks were opportunistic, it doesn’t change the fact that National Socialists were seen by Stalin as preferable allies to capitalists and communists were seen by National Socialists as preferable allies to capitalists. We can go further into this, but the point remains the same: the trends that Biden labels as fascist in the United States are the first spark of genuine, working-class socialism that our country has seen in decades. The American socialism to come will not arise in San Francisco but rather in Kentucky or Tennessee or in another state that bourgeois refer to as fly-over country, in places marginalized by the powers that be, in communities given no hope by a government that openly despises them and calls them privileged in the same sentence.
