There appeared on Twitter recently the hashtag #MAGACommunism, which included tweets calling for an alliance between communists and MAGA followers. I was immediately intrigued by the idea, inasmuch I have been seeking to formulate a political analysis that is an anti-imperialist synthesis of Third World socialist and American conservative values.
I have questions for which I do not have answers. Is there a possibility to develop a Twitter hashtag with a certain following into a real social and political movement? What would be appropriate strategies for attempting to forge a real movement? What would be necessary mechanisms for preventing the infiltration of the fledgling movement by subversive elements acting in defense of certain particular interests, using such strategies as hostile disruptive actions and the promotion of immature, idealist proposals?
It seems to me that a clarification of pro…