Ukraine and 21st Century Neo-Fascism: Left-Wing Support for Imperialism and White Supremacy | Global Research

Ukraine and 21st Century Neo-Fascism: Left-Wing Support for Imperialism and White Supremacy | Global Research

The U.S.-European “Left’s” tepid – and even supportive – response
to NATO’s destabilization of Ukraine reveals the deep workings of white
supremacy on the “western” mind. We face the specter of a “left-right
convergence” to save the global imperial project. How else to explain
widespread “leftist” acceptance of racist doctrines like “humanitarian
intervention” and “responsibility to protect?”

Some years ago Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri suggested
that while not always visible in the social practices of everyday
European life, the racist foundation for European fascism was still
present, safely confined to a space in the European psyche but always
ready to explode in what he called a racist delirium.

Today, white workers and the middle classes in Europe and the U.S.,
traumatized by the new realities imposed on them by the decline of the
Western imperialist project and the turn to neoliberalism, are
increasingly embracing a retrograde form of white supremacist politics.

This dangerous political phenomenon is developing in countries
throughout the European Union and in the U.S. Just recently, the
National Front, a racist, authoritarian party that labored on the
fringes of French politics for years, has emerged as one of the dominant
forces in French politics. The Tea Party in the U.S., Golden Dawn in
Greece, the People’s Party in Spain, the Partij Voor de Vrijheid in the
Netherlands – in these and other countries, a transatlantic radical
racist movement is emerging and gaining respectability.