Post #391424
2026-02-24 17:45 UTC
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@davel@lemmy.ml 2026-02-24 17:53
When the right speaks of “globalism,” it is a dog whistle for anti-communism & anti-semitism, a euphemism for the “[global Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism).” When the left criticizes the World Economic Forum, it does it in the context of class war, not in the right’s racist, harebrained context.
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-02-24 17:53
Marxist-Leninists are internationalists, as in supporting the international movement against imperialism and for socialism globally. The idea of free-trade, and dominance of imperialist finance capital, WEF, etc. is right-wing, and leftists oppose this. "Globalism" is usually a dogwhistle for racist views.
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@Tabitha@hexbear.net 2026-02-24 21:06
I'd say, in some technical sense, we're actually more against """globalists""" than the right, because ATM """globalists""" are all varying degrees of capitalists/imperialists/fascists. That term's usage is often incoherent and detached from reality, and may have racist implications (depending on the speaker, knowingly or not). So we don't use it. We're able to clearly articulate what we're for and against, so we just do that instead.
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@disregardable@lemmy.zip 2026-02-24 19:54
It does not make any sense to oppose international cooperation. Like it's moronic outside the scope of politics- it's just straight up brainwashed. "The people are foreign and therefore we can only ever talk to them to exploit them!" Like really?
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@Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 2026-02-24 17:54
I cant speak for other leftists but if there are no states this whole point becones sort of moot. We need global trade even in decentralizrd, stateless communities. But without a nation for this nationalism to take root in I don't see it being as big of an issue. For instance, none of these right wingers complain about their cups of coffee in the morning and they'd be pissed if the trade routes that supply it suddenly vanished.
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@HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2026-02-26 17:53
Isn't "globalists" an antisemitic dog whistle for Jews? If so, then no. Leftists don't hate Jews.
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@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-02-26 16:57
Depends what you mean by "leftists". The specific kind that's on Lemmy classifies the word dualistically in terms of Western imperialists vs. non-Western anti-imperialists, as opposed to in terms of my nation vs. outsiders. It's kind of an ill posed question, then. An anarchist might just say "I am a globalist". You're getting a lot of emphatic nos because nobody wants to be associated with right-coded vocabulary, even if it's more of a "wrong question" than a no. Same as if you bring up class war to the other end of the spectrum.