Weltschmerz à Gogo on Nostr: I wouldn't say that the right doesn't make any effort to understanding the left or ...

I wouldn't say that the right doesn't make any effort to understanding the left or "hear both sides." It's just that they do it in a totally bad faith way. They're constantly co-opting the left's jargon and concepts. French New Right figurehead Alain de Benoist published a book a number of years ago now called 'Marx from the Right.' Their whole idea of "metapolitics" is (ostensibly) borrowed from Gramsci. There was a whole international far-right "anti-colonial" movement in the 1970s-80s (addressed to some extent in the article at the link). The whole idea of a "third position" is that they're not exactly left wing, not exactly right wing, but rather something else -- something that "takes the best of both." Hell, there's a whole neo-nazi movement that calls itself "national bolshevism."

So it's not that they don't hear us. They do. It's just that they have a parasitic relationship with us: they want ideas that work (because they have very few of those on their own), they want interesting, catchy aesthetics (which they have a real hard time coming up with by themselves), and they *really* want to "convert" some of us (which is why people really need to stop sharing stuff from Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson just because they criticize Israel).

https://totalpropaganda.net/2025/08/21/ethnopluralism-or-the-reactionary-desire-for-apartheid-on-a-global-scale/