{"id":2299,"date":"2024-03-22T19:09:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2024-03-22T19:10:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T19:10:09","slug":"how-the-us-empire-stole-the-lefts-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopoliticalcompass.com\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"How the US empire stole the left’s ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Author:<\/b> Joseph Massad<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Affiliation: <\/b>Columbia University<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Organization\/Publisher:<\/b> Middle<\/span><\/a> East Eye<\/span><\/p>

Date\/Place:<\/b>\u00a0 January 17, 2020, U.K.<\/span><\/p>

Type of Literature:<\/b> Article\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Word Count:<\/b> 1768<\/span><\/p>

Link: <\/b>\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/opinion\/us-and-new-imperial-order<\/span><\/a><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> The Left, Imperialism, Racism, Democracy, Orientalism.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Brief:<\/b><\/p>

Since Reagan\u2019s presidency, the US has been working on transforming key concepts used by the global left against western imperialist ambitions. That goal has thus far been successful domestically but not yet globally. From the 1980\u2019s onwards, after the cold war two methods were utilized to attain results in redefining concepts. The first method is \u201cNewspeak,\u201d or emptying concepts of their core meanings, thereby disengaging associations; the concept could here be the <\/span>US disassociating its power from its global activities. Accordingly, the term \u201cImperialism\u201d had been used only when it came to the USSR but not the US. Democracy is also redefined by saying that the US has been a democracy since 1776 while ignoring colonial expansion and slavery. The US may have been restrained in some periods, but has reverted back to being repressive. This discourse strongly represents White Americans. Racism too has been emptied of its meaning and has become a global brand which all are guilty of regardless. As a result, racism goes from an experience of institutional discrimination against minorities to a mere social or individual prejudice that all are guilty of, which renders null any criticism of racist behaviors. This equalizing of guilt produced the term \u201cOccidentalism\u201d as a mirror to Orientalism. The second strategy is appropriating concepts of the left, transforming the \u201cadopted\u201d principles and then using the new terms against critics. Thus, US aid to \u201crevolutionary\u201d pro-imperialist forces isn\u2019t \u201caid,\u201d but rather the US presents itself as a liberal supporter of \u201ccivil society\u201d and \u201cactivism.\u201d Questioning these new meanings offered by the hegemonic order exposes the questioner to heavy accusations, especially from social media agents of the new imperial culture.<\/span><\/p>

By:<\/b> Omar Fili, CIGA Research Intern<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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