Funny you should say that, because I talked about just that very thing in much the same terms yesterday. I don't have a complete picture, by any means, but it certainly seems like there's a long trend of chauvinist socdem men in the US who could be reasonably described as "right libertarians who want healthcare," who'd have similar takes on foreign policy as the left and denounce racism and bigotry in the abstract only to react aggressively whenever their own racism, bigotry, and predatory desires came into question.
I hesitate to paint all of the anti-communist "left" with that brush, and I'm sure it also includes some self-proclaimed communists who only arrived at that position by contrarianism rather than through learning about the successes and experiments of actual socialist projects (as an aside, it was learning that sort of history that changed my views on AES states away from the typical liberal brainworms, like learning even mundane things like how the Soviet justice system functioned - it was dysfunctional, but no more so than the modern American justice system and generally quite a bit more lenient - or what the actual material policies China pursued in the 50s and 60s were and why they were made), but it certainly does seem to be a whole lot of western socdems who'd opposed communists, feminists, and civil rights activists just as aggressively as they'd oppose theocrats and establishment liberals.
The fact that this incoherent counter-culture provided such a ripe crop when the establishment invented Fascism Gamer Fuel: Extra Treats and Cartoon Waifus Edition to bring them into the fold shows this, I think, just as much as the left that crystalized in the wake of that movement shows that the solution is a strong ethical focus on solidarity. Although there's the lingering problem that there are plenty of "left" anticommunists who want healthcare but also extra treats and illicit cartoon waifus, and they have large, aggressive followings that are just as devoted to opposing the left as any Fascist or reactionary socdem of yesteryear.
Funny you should say that, because I talked about just that very thing in much the same terms yesterday. I don't have a complete picture, by any means, but it certainly seems like there's a long trend of chauvinist socdem men in the US who could be reasonably described as "right libertarians who want healthcare," who'd have similar takes on foreign policy as the left and denounce racism and bigotry in the abstract only to react aggressively whenever their own racism, bigotry, and predatory desires came into question.
I hesitate to paint all of the anti-communist "left" with that brush, and I'm sure it also includes some self-proclaimed communists who only arrived at that position by contrarianism rather than through learning about the successes and experiments of actual socialist projects (as an aside, it was learning that sort of history that changed my views on AES states away from the typical liberal brainworms, like learning even mundane things like how the Soviet justice system functioned - it was dysfunctional, but no more so than the modern American justice system and generally quite a bit more lenient - or what the actual material policies China pursued in the 50s and 60s were and why they were made), but it certainly does seem to be a whole lot of western socdems who'd opposed communists, feminists, and civil rights activists just as aggressively as they'd oppose theocrats and establishment liberals.
The fact that this incoherent counter-culture provided such a ripe crop when the establishment invented Fascism Gamer Fuel: Extra Treats and Cartoon Waifus Edition to bring them into the fold shows this, I think, just as much as the left that crystalized in the wake of that movement shows that the solution is a strong ethical focus on solidarity. Although there's the lingering problem that there are plenty of "left" anticommunists who want healthcare but also extra treats and illicit cartoon waifus, and they have large, aggressive followings that are just as devoted to opposing the left as any Fascist or reactionary socdem of yesteryear.