An Alliance of Socialists and Conservatives Against Liberal Centrism: Not Such Strange Fellows After All

Not all conservatives are neocons or reactionaries. The New Right in Europe is against capitalism, globalization, liberalism, imperialism  and Russia-phobia. Very strange kind of conservative, right?

This New Right argues that the real enemy is liberal centrism and insists that the division of political spectrum into right vs left only benefits liberal centrists.  Socialists need to separate themselves from leftism and remember that  for 50 years between 1845 – 1894 socialists did not identify with leftism. It is liberal centrists who are terrified of socialists and conservatives uniting.

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About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his five books: "From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning", "Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World" (co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn), "Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present", "Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized", and "The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism". He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia, WA.

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