America can’t stop talking about the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The killer, Luigi Mangione, turned out to be an Ivy League-educated tech bro from a wealthy family. He has already become a mythical hero. Before his identification, leftists lionized the masked gunman as a hero. Even the knowledge of Mangione’s idiosyncratic politics hasn’t dampened left-wing enthusiasm for the shooting. They see Thompson’s death as just retribution for the errors of the American healthcare system. Some even feel he deserved it simply for having a nice home and eight-figure salary.
Regardless of Mangione’s own motivations, his fandom is largely motivated by the standard resentment that animates the Left. It only partially matters that Thompson was involved in health insurance. What really matters is that he’s a wealthy white guy who “got what he deserved.” His death apparently offers the chance to achieve universal healthcare and the promised socialist utopia. Thus, it was necessary.
It’s no surprise leftists would celebrate the murder. What’s strange is the large number of right-wingers who think the assassination is BASED. Like the Left, they think we need to eliminate health insurers, allow liberal bureaucrats to have complete control of the system, and redistribute even more of the wealth from the productive to the unproductive. This reflects the bizarre Marxist tendencies on the far-right. Socialism unironically sucks and would hurt the middle Americans we claim to represent. Only a poorly-adjusted fool would think this failed theory is good.
It’s necessary to explain how stupid it is to think killing a health insurance CEO helps us solve the problem. The government is more responsible for the sorry state of healthcare than insurance execs. Obamacare has proven to be a disaster and the Biden administration has continued to make this system worse. On top of all this, there are millions of people who get healthcare without paying for it. Illegal immigrants and other indigents place a huge burden on the system, which is passed onto productive and healthy people. American healthcare already operates on socialist principles, with radical redistribution of wealth from the responsible to the irresponsible. The Leftist solution is to increase government control and wealth redistribution through single-payer. This sounds like a great idea to too many on the Right.
There are a couple of reasons why some on the Right entertain socialism. These types think everything is corrupt in America, especially its capitalist economy. Anti-capitalism is an ideal way to signal you’e a “radical.” Socialism is upheld simply because it’s different from the current economic system. Often these people voice nonsensical ideas such as banning banks, loans, and even money itself. It’s more crankery than well-reasoned economic thinking.
Anti-capitalism also allows right-wingers to differentiate themselves from Conservative Inc. There are many conservatives and libertarians who talk about the free market as if it’s a god. This has naturally resulted in silly notions that capitalism can solve every single problem and there should be no criticism of it. Repelled by this sentiment, parts of the Dissident Right adopted socialism to counter-signal these delusions. But this knee-jerk reaction has led to even dumber delusions that government control is the solution to every problem.
Socialism from the Right is also motivated by a misunderstanding of who we represent. Both right-wing radicals and conservatives now believe their constituency is the working-class. When thinking of these people, a mythical image than an actual image prevails. They imagine their people as noble, yet downtrodden factory workers who would benefit from government assistance. In this theory, the BASED working-class wants higher taxes, more regulations, and more welfare. This mythical image doesn’t align with the Right’s real-world supporters.
The Right still represents those with stable incomes who resent taxes and regulation, whether they work a blue-collar job or a white-collar one. They would appreciate a better healthcare system, but the last thing they want is more welfare. They’re the ones who pay taxes. They are the ones whose wealth will be redistributed to the “undeserving.” The recipients of this generosity won’t be the white steelworkers of right-wing dreams. It will be the mulitracial lumpenproletariat and blue-haired Starbucks workers. These aren’t our people. Taxpaying working- and middle-class people are. They don’t want socialism—they want less government.
Some on the Right got into socialism through radical writers from the 19th century and early 20th century. A number of Europeans right-wingers at the time entertained some form of socialism to stick it to bourgeois complacency and to evince concern for the working man. But few of them went all the way into Marxism. Their “socialism” was usually little more than bombastic rhetoric and vague platitudes. While these writings hold a certain literary appeal, they bear little relevance to our situation. We don’t face a communist menace and the working class is very different from what it was like before World War II. Our problems require different thinking.
However, we can turn to these thinkers to condemn socialism.
Nietzsche, a favorite among right-wing socialists, was adamantly opposed to the ideology. He saw it as rooted in resentment and an expression of slave morality:
Socialism―or the tyranny of the meanest and the most brainless,―that is to say, the superficial, the envious, and the mummers, brought to its zenith,―is, as a matter of fact, the logical conclusion of “modern ideas” and their latent anarchy: but in the genial atmosphere of democratic well-being the capacity for forming resolutions or even for coming to an end at all, is paralysed. Men follow―but no longer their reason. That is why socialism is on the whole a hopelessly bitter affair: and there is nothing more amusing than to observe the discord between the poisonous and desperate faces of present-day socialists―and what wretched and nonsensical feelings does not their style reveal to us! ―and the childish lamblike happiness of their hopes and desires.
Another popular thinker among these types is Carl Schmitt, whose friend-enemy distinction is endlessly repeated in right-wing circles. If we take that distinction seriously, then we should recognize our “friends” as the productive classes who pay taxes and work hard. Those who live off the taxpayers’ dime and contribute little to society are not our friends. They are the ones rewarded by the enemy at the expense of our own people. It is idiotic to do a reverse friend-enemy distinction where you reward your enemies and punish your friends just stick it to the proverbial MAN. That’s just leftism no matter how many edgy symbols you dress it up in.
The Dissident Right mocked the “Socialism Sucks” slogan for years, but it’s unironically true. We don’t want to espouse a politics rooted in resentment and which punishes our own base. A true Right aims to protect the interests of the best and brightest, not steal their money to distribute to hobos.
In order to win, we need a positive vision that aims to make America better and offers its people a meaningful and prosperous life. This vision will attract winners.
Right-wing socialism isn’t the answer—it’s for losers.
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