It's perhaps worth mentioning also that clowns like Nagle and Zizek aren't the only leftists who have aligned with Krein. He's also recruited respectable Trotskyists and Keynesians, Nancy Fraser and Dean Baker respectively, to his nationalist project. Fraser wrote an article framing the current moment in the most banal, alt-right-amenable way, as a clash between multicultural neoliberalism and ethnonationalism, and then somehow managed to side with the latter. (Rabid anti(neo)liberalism does terrible things to your brain, kids; c.f. Henwood, Klein, at al.) Baker's article was more technocratic but still argued in favor of a nationalized mortgage entity organized on principles of good citizenship and responsibility and existing in a system allowing differential exploitation of black, brown, and female borrowers.
Given the "europeanization" of US conservatism, this isn't super surprising. Leftists aligning with the alt-right at the institutional level is a bit more, but not as much as how little the likes of Fraser and Baker have had to alter their politics and ideology to fit in. On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 6:38 PM martha rosler <[email protected] wrote: > smallish correction, but worth mentioning. > Nagle’s article was published in *American Affairs.* > > something of a successor to *National Affairs, *but not with quite the > aims associated with that mag. > and here’s more than you need to know > > 'In an interview, Mr. Krein semi-jokingly described the journal as aiming > to appeal to fans of both Foreign Affairs and the Slovenian Marxist > provocateur Slavoj Zizek. More seriously, he said, the magazine seeks to > fill the void left by a conservative intellectual establishment more > focused on opposing Mr. Trump than on grappling with the rejection of > globalism and free-market dogma that propelled his victory.’ > >
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