The Left's "Globalist" Imperialism

From the First International to the USSR to the EU, empire is precisely what the left has sought to create. Only the titles change.

by Rod D. Martin
July 9, 2019

The anti-Brexit Economist newspaper publishes a story entitled “Conservatism is fighting for its life against reactionary nationalism”. Which is about what you’d expect from our “betters” as they demand we conform our long-held beliefs to theirs.

By nationalist, of course, they mean a community larger than a town but smaller than the planet having the right to govern itself. Seems conservative enough to me, and I bet to you also. But not, of course, to the Theresa May, Bill Kristol, Max Boot wing of what they pretend to be “conservatism”.

Before it became faddish to define that idea as entirely racist, the left claimed it was merely Luddite, pitted against “globalism”, which many took to mean an increasingly interconnected world, something that is also (mostly) good.

But that’s not what the left meant at all, then or now.

The left hates nationalism not because it is the opposite of a shrinking world but because it’s the opposite of something much older: imperia…