Editing Conservative Socialism (section)

==History==

===[[File:ComradeTrump.png]] America===
MAGA Communism is a American Marxist-Leninist tendency that believes the leadership of Communists in the MAGA movement. This is because MAGA is the only partisan anti-establishment movement, and thus the only Left-wing or communist movement in the US.<ref>https://showinfrared.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-maga-communism?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2</ref> Other notably controversial opinions include that Socialist Patriotism should be applied to America, that Pol Pot was a Communist, that the economic base is already socialist, &ct.

It should be noted that while Patriotic Socialism has often been used as a label against MAGA Communists, it has been repudiated by the main thought leader Haz.<ref>https://showinfrared.substack.com/p/on-the-patsoc-split?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2</ref>

The most prominent thought leaders of MAGA Communism include Haz, Jackson Hinkle, and Logo Daedalus.

===[[File:PostSoviet.png]] Post-Soviet Countries===

====[[File:ComNostalgia.png]][[File:PRLBNostalgia.png]] Communist Nostalgia [[File:Yugonostalgiaism.png]][[File:Ostalgie.png]]====
'''Communist Nostalgia''' represents movements or individuals that are nostalgic for the communist eras, especially [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Soviet Union (especially for the [[File:JosephStalin.png]] Stalin and [[File:Brezhnev.png]] Brezhnev eras), [[File:Cball-Yugoslavia.png]] [[Titoism|Yugoslavia]], [[File:Cball-PRBulgaria.png]] [[National Communism#Zhivkovism|PR Bulgaria]] and [[File:Cball-EastGermany.png]] East Germany. They are almost always [[File:AntiAm.png]] anti-American, [[File:Antiwest.png]] anti-NATO, [[File:Anti-LGBT.png]] anti-LGBT and [[File:Euroscept.png]] anti-EU because they deviate from "old soviet values". Soviet nostalgic views are a common sight within the Eastern Slavic diaspora across the world, especially within Europe.
 
When it comes to Soviet Nostalgists, many of them are [[File:AntiNation.png]] against nationalism including linguistic nationalism, preferring to speak Russian over the state language of the nation they reside in (if talking about Russians and/or Russophones outside of Russia, due to USSR having Russian language as official) and demonizing anti-communist and nationalist groups such as [[File:Cball-Estonia.png]] [[File:Cball-Latvia.png]] [[File:Cball-Lithuania.png]] [[Ultranationalism|Forest Brothers]], [[File:UPA.png]] [[Ultranationalism|Ukrainian Insurgent Army]] and [[File:Solidarność.png]] [[Christian Democracy|Solidarność]], including claimed ties among the aforementioned nationalist movements with Nazism (Such as the 14th Waffen-SS Galician and the Latvian Legion of the Waffen-SS). As such, many Soviet nostalgists are [[File:Russophilia.png]] Russophile, and/or [[File:PanSlav.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism|pan-slavic]]. Unlike most [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninists]], Soviet Nostalgists are sometimes religious (usually [[File:Orth.png]] [[Orthodox Theocracy|Orthodox Christian]]) due to shared cultural values and relatively soft stance on the church of Brezhnev-era USSR.

It should be noted that some Soviet nostalgists, such as [[File:Lukash.png]] Lukashenko and [[File:Yanuk.png]] Yanukovych are not socialist, as they're much closer to [[File:Socauth.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism|social authoritarianism]] economically but keeping the aesthetics and cultural values, usually while being allied with actual socialists.

Many [[File:Soc-h.png]] [[Socialism|socialist]] political parties in Eastern Europe, embracing the legacy of [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] Soviet Union and acting with [[File:OldLeft.png]] Old Left policies, support [[File:SocialConservative.png]] [[Conservatism|social conservatism]]. [[File:PSRM.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|PSRM]] and [[File:PCRM.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|PCRM]] in [[File:Cball-Moldova.png]] Moldova are [[File:Trad.png]] [[Traditionalism|culturally right]] political parties. [[File:Zyu.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|CPRF]] in [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia, and to a lesser degree [[File:KKE.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|KKE]] in [[File:Cball-Greece.png]] Greece, approves laws [[File:Anti-LGBT.png]] criticizing LGBT. [[File:BulgariaBSP.png]] [[Social Democracy|BSP]] has some [[File:Consocf.png]] conservative socialist factions and [[File:Symonenko.png]] [[Marxism|KPU]] and [[File:CPBelarus.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|CPB]] supports [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russophilia as a formal policy. [[File:Smer.png]] [[Welfare Chauvinism|Smer]], a [[File:Leftnat.png]] [[Left-Wing Nationalism|left-wing nationalist]] political party in [[File:Cball-Slovakia.png]] Slovakia, is also close to [[File:OldLeft.png]] Old Left.

===[[File:FraLeftCon.png]] France===
In France, Left Conservatism is a rather vague term that designates several personalities and organizations officially of the Left who are nevertheless often critical of modern Left Progressivism.

We can cite for example, Georges Kuzmanovic, a Frenchman of Serbian origin who began his political career by joining the Trotskyite organization Lutte Ouvrière. After several humanitarian operations in Mali and Rwanda, he joined the Left Party of Jean Luc Mélenchon in 2009 before joining La France Insoumise, the new party founded by Mélenchon. He then left this party to found his new party called [[File:Republicanismpix.png]] République Souveraine because of disagreements with the leadership on issues such as his anti-immigration positions and the little importance he gives to struggles such as feminism or LGBTQ+ struggles. His party has a socialist, protectionist, Eurosceptic and Gaullist agenda and has tried to nominate Kuzmanovic for the 2022 election. This candidacy attempt was supported by Jacques Cheminades, the French representative of the Larouche Movement and the youtuber Tatiana Ventôse, also a former member of La France Insoumise. However, this candidacy did not succeed.

The [[File:PCF.png]] French Communist Party has also been accused of Left-wing conservatism in the 2022 presidential election under the leadership of Fabien Roussel, who in addition to the party's traditional support to nuclear energy, has issued other statements in the media that put him at odds with large parts of the french Left, such pro-hunting, pro-meat consumption, pro-small business positions and support to the police. However while there are internally more conservative elements in it, the party and its platform remains vastly progressive.

The [[File:PS.png]] Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste) has been through an informal split since the 2012 election and mandate of François Hollande, initially between the pro-governments and the "frondeurs", the latter accusing the government of betraying its promises in favor of the status-quo and demanding the enactment of actual left-wing policies. This internal split continued through the 2017 election in the party's primaries, with the supporters of the Hollande government constituting themselves as a more conservative faction, and the frondeurs managing to have their candidate, Benoit Hamon, win over former prime minster Manuel Valls. Many supporters of the Hollande mandate refused to acknowledge this, and even before the election supported instead Emmanuel Macron's candidacy, Manuel Valls himself joining him. Following Macron's first election, most of those in the PS who had supported Hollande's presidency had left the party to join Macron's movement and government, many of them claiming that the new Left had changed too much. These having repudiated social-democracy to embrace neo-liberalism, they can hardly be described as conservative socialists. However, the split continued within the PS up until 2022, where former Hollande supporters who didn't leave the party (mostly party officials and executives), as well as some former-frondeurs and more neutral members kept forming this conservative faction which began to more publicly word its concern regarding cultural progressivism in the Left. Anne Hidalgo, the party's candidate during the 2022 presidentials, which was at the time ambiguous on its criticism of Hollande's legacy, notably said that she was against the "woke" Left, a term that had just started being imported from the US by the french Right. What remains of the PS is currently mostly dominated by the continuers of the frondeurs.

An issue where the french conservative left more often than not clashes with other parts of the french left is its view on [[File:Laicism.png]] [[Secularism#French Secularism|Laicism]]. While in France the modern Left generally defends an inclusive vision of the "laïcité", often claimed to be closer to its original conception and summed up in the phrase "just the 1905 law, nothing but the 1905 law, all of the 1905 law", those in the Right who are in favor of laicism uphold it in a more culturally-centered way, especially against french muslims whose practices are deemed "incompatible with the laws of the Republic", such as wearing the islamic veil in public spaces. The conservative parts of the french Left thus often take the same approach as the Right on this matter, as when Hollande's prime minister Manuel Valls supported the ban of burkini from public beaches and pools. The think-tank "Printemps Républicain" has been created mainly to uphold this vision of Laicism. Political figures of the french Left like [[File:Melenchon.png]] Jean-Luc Mélenchon began defending a similar position before gradually shifting to its more modern conception.

"Marianne" is a center-left journal which under the direction of essayist Natacha Polony has often been appealing the french conservative Left and criticizing the modern Left.

===[[File:FrenteObrero.png]] Spain===

Frente Obrero (Worker Front in english) is a political party from [[File:Cball-Spain.png]] Spain, this party was constituted on October 14, 2018 as a "Mass Front" within the [[File:ML.png]] PML (RC), over time it would have more representation in several provinces in Spain, in 2022 a congress was held to become a political party.

In their ideals, the party mainly defends [[File:Soc-h.png]] socialist economic measures (although the same party calls itself "Workerist"), [[File:Cball-Spain.png]] Spanish national sovereignty and its cultural identity, confronting [[File:Anti_Illegal-Immigration.png]] illegal immigration, [[File:Natalism.png]] natalist ideas, opposing the [[File:Antiwest.png]] West, [[File:Anticap.png]] Capitalism, [[File:AntiFem.png]] Feminism and [[File:Postmodernicon.png]] Postmodernism.

In a matter of elections, it has a councilor in a town in [[File:Cball-Castile-Red.png]] Castilla-La Mancha and obtained 46,530 votes in the general elections, being the second most voted party at the national level without representation.

Although the party's leader, Roberto Vaquero, is a [[File:ML.png]] communist, the Frente Obrero party has denied being communist.

===[[File:DiegoFusaro.png]] Italy===

Diego Fusaro (Turin, 15 June 1983) is an [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italian essayist and commentator

Graduated from the Vittorio Alfieri classical high school in Turin, Fusaro obtained a degree in philosophy of history and subsequently a master's degree with a thesis on the history of modern philosophy on  [[File:Karl_Marx.png]] Karl Marx at the University of Turin. After obtaining a PhD from the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan in the philosophy of history, he was a type A fixed-term researcher in the history of philosophy at the same university from 2011 to 2016.

At the age of 16 he created a website on philosophy, Filosofico.net, which he still manages, and since 20 June 2015 he has edited a blog for [[File: Mediastocracy flair.png]] Il Fatto Quotidiano. In March 2017 he founded the cultural association and magazine [[File: Mediastocracy flair.png]] L'Interesse Nazionale, together with Giuseppe Azzinari and Ivan Rizzi. For a short time, shortly before its closure, he wrote for the weekly magazine Tempi. Since January 2018 he has been the owner of the Lampi del pensiero column on Affaritaliani.it and, since May of the same year, of the weekly column La ragion populista on [[File: Mediastocracy flair.png]] Il Primato Nazionale, the official magazine of the [[File:NeoFash.png]] neo-fascist CasaPound movement. He has a daily column called Flashes of daily thought on Radio Radio. For a certain period he collaborated with Radio Padania Libera. Since May 2022 he has been editing "Controvento" a column on the [[File: Mediastocracy flair.png]] ByoBlu disinformation site

In 2019 he ran for mayor in the municipal elections of Gioia Tauro (Calabria) with the Southern Risorgimento list for Italy, obtaining 2.84% of the votes and reaching last place. In the same electoral round he was designated by the candidate for mayor of the [[File:Fivestaricon.png]] 5 Star Movement of Foligno as councilor for culture in the event of his affirmation: the pentastellati obtain 11.59% of the votes and are excluded from the ballot.

On 14 September 2019, together with Francesco Toscano, he founded the sovereign and populist party  
Vox Italia. The following month, Senator Carlo Martelli joined Vox Italia, leading the party to have the first representative in Parliament, only to leave it in 2021 to join [[File:Rpop-tinfoilhat.png]] Italexit. The party participated in various regional and municipal elections, but never managed to get more by 0.5% of the vote.

On 2 August 2022, in disagreement with the party line, Diego Fusaro announces the interruption of his collaboration with Ancora Italia. The reasons given by Fusaro are many: among them, his own lack of recognition as an ideologist of Ancora Italia (initially envisaged by the party statute, then ignored and finally removed in the Naples 2022 congress), the lack of invitation to the Naples congress in summer of 2022, the line adopted in foreign policy (according to Fusaro "too [[File:Atlanticism.png]] Atlanticist" and too little [[File:Cball-China.png]] pro-Chinese) and finally the electoral alliance with other formations headed by [[File:Natcom.png]] Marco Rizzo's Communist Party and Antonio Ingroia's Civil Action in part of the "sovereign and popular Italy" list in view of the general elections of 25 September 2022.

In his publications, Fusaro has dealt with [[File:Karl_Marx.png]] Marx's thought from the point of view of German idealism, combining the critique of the capitalist system with elements drawn from the communitarian and sovereign tradition. He claims to follow in the footsteps of the Italian philosopher Costanzo Preve, of whom he considers himself a pupil, despite not having attended the professor's high school.

He supported the posting of posters by an [[File:Antiabort.png]] anti-abortion and [[File:Anti-LGBT.png]] anti-LGBT rights organization linked to [[File:NeoFash.png]] Forza Nuova, also declaring himself against the Zan bill against homotransphobia, ableism and sexism, which he defined as a tool to impose the “new erotic order”

He argues that [[File:Trans.png]] transgenderism erected as a media model is based on sexual deregulation, on the demolition of all limits and all sovereignty linked to the sphere of nature and biology and that the career alias for transgender people, i.e. the possibility of using in the name election instead of the registry office in the universities would be a weapon to divide and distract the masses

He is one of the Italian followers of [[File:Dugin.png]] Aleksandr Gel'evič Dugin's Eurasianism, whom he met together with Gianluca Savoini, a far-right politician under investigation for international corruption by the Milan prosecutor's office. The doctrine of Eurasianism envisages the creation of Eurasia, a nation extended from Portugal to Russia, under Russian hegemony. In expressing his support for Russia, Fusaro spread the false news on his social profiles that the Ukrainian president [[File:Zelensky.png]] Volodymyr Zelens'kyj would use cocaine

He declared himself against the [[File:Scientocracy_Small.png]] decree-law n. 73 of 2017 relating to vaccination obligations, since the number of vaccinations made mandatory by the decree law, according to him, would be excessive and with the exclusive economic return of the pharmaceutical multinationals, although this statement has been denied by the data of the Ministry of Health on national pharmaceutical expenditure.

Regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, he has supported positions according to which the preventive health measures adopted by the government contain elements of social control techniques

He participated in "no vax" demonstrations organized by the [[File:NeoFash.png]] neo-fascist organization Forza Nuova, together with Alessandro Meluzzi, Povia, the conspiracy theorist archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Carlo Taormina; in 2022 he participates in a meeting in support of the neo-fascists convicted of assaulting and devastating the national headquarters of the CGIL. In 2021 in a tweet he unintentionally demonstrates the effectiveness of vaccines against the spread of COVID

On his social profiles, Fusaro spread the false news according to which the Green Pass, or the document certifying the health and vaccination situation with respect to the COVID 19 virus and which authorizes travel, is automatically blocked if a citizen has unpaid taxes or fines pay.

===[[File:BlueLabour.png]] United Kingdom [[File:George.png]]===
====[[File:BlueLabour.png]] Blue Labourism====
Blue Labour was started in 2008 by Maurice Glasman after his mother's death restored his vigour to make a difference in the world. It believes that [[File:OldLabour.png]] [[Democratic Socialism|Old Labour]] was too statist, losing the point of socialism, while [[File:New Labourism.png]] [[Third Way|New Labour]] was equally bad as it placed to much emphasis on the market. It believes in reversing the trend of globalisation so that local people can control their own economy through fiscal localism and democratising the economy. They planned to achieve this by nationalising public services allowing them to be controlled by working people, not the state, while also leaving the European Union and putting tariffs up against the rest of the world too with the government funding British industries to redevelop the national economy. Blue Labour opposes economic migrants too as they believe that migrants lower wages and undermine union power. They were rarely featured at the highest level of Labour politics however it is generally associated with the soft left in [[File:Miliband.png]] Ed Miliband and [[File:Starmer.png]] Keir Starmer opposing both the radicalism of [[File:Corbynism.png]] Corbyn and [[File:TonyBlair.png]] Blair. However since the 2024 General Election Blue Labour has grown drastically in size and closeness with the height of Labour politics, with the explicit courting and rephrasing of Labour by Morgan McSweeney. This has had the effect of moving Blue Labour away from economic policies such as [[File:Local.png]] [[localism|Fiscal Localism]], [[File:Guildsoc.png]] [[Guild Socialism]] and [[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism|reindustrialisation]] to [[File:Cultcon.png]] [[Traditionalism|Cultural Conservatism]] with [[File:TERF.png]] Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist views on transgender rights, a hard-line position on migrants and refugees, and opposition to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) measures. This has come with the foundation of Blue Labour as a parliamentary caucus gaining seven MPs too. Jonathon Hinder for example has moved beyond the former centrist opinion of much of Labour under Starmer going to oppose the Cass Review and support for banning all puberty blockers for children.