The insights of MAGA Communism
On leftists, partisans, and the sacred
On September 22, 2022, Thomas Fazi, a columnist for Compact, published “What is MAGA Communism?” He noted that the hashtag #MAGACommunism has been trending on Twitter. The inventor of the hashtag is unclear, but it has been popularized by Haz Al-Din, a self-described Marxist-Leninist who is the intellectual behind Infrared; and it has been disseminated on Twitter by Jackson Hinkle, popular commentator and self-described communist.
Fazi reports that, in Al-Din’s view, Trump has irreversibly changed American politics for the better, because he has broken the hold of the two possibilities allowed by the political establishment. The class struggle has been revitalized, and there is now a mass movement, in the form of MAGA, against the status quo. The key idea is that communists should support MAGA, making communism more appealing by severing its connection with leftism and stressing its opposition to monopolies in banking, pharmacy, agriculture, and technology.