The inability of the political spectrum to communicate across internal divisions has had a disproportionate impact on contemporary internet culture, while remaining notoriously difficult to describe from the outside. Most erstwhile attempts to explain it have only compounded the confusion.
From the nominative left, this condition is framed as the death-throes of white supremacy, patriarchy, fascism, and related formations. From the nominative “real left”, it is understood as a reaction to the failure of the nominative left to confront the reactionary mire produced by neoliberal identity politics. From the nominative right, it appears as controlled opposition — deployed by “globalists” to discredit free-market paleoliberalism. From the nominative “real right”, it is imagined as a revolt against the modern world itself, preparing the foundations for a twenty-first century defined by a return to greatness, a golden age, imperium aeternum.
Despite their antagonism, these positions mirror one another: each relies on the same narrative logic, repackaged through different ideological vocabularies.
Contents: Critiques of Nationalism — Left-Postcolonial, Right-Nationalist, Classical Republican
Neoliberalism Critiques — Left-Feminist, State-Socialist, Right-Populist
Critiquing the Alt-Right — Left-Cultural, Left-Anarchist, Right-Conservative
Defenses of Capitalism — Pragmatic Liberal, Libertarian, Industrial Capitalist, African Pro-Market
Anti Finance Capitalism — Marxist, Institutional Reformist, Industrial Capitalist, Liberal
Pro-Nationalism — Left-Anti-Colonial, Right-National Conservative, Founding Fathers, Islamic Nationalist
Anti-Communism — Liberal Pluralist, Elite Liberal, Liberal Republican, Classical Liberal, National Conservative
