Russophobia in the U.S. — Right-Liberal vs. Left-Liberal Perspectives

There are two kinds of Russophobia in the US: right-liberal (MacCarthy style) and left-liberal (Trotskyism and neocons). First is ant-icommunism in general (Stalin included) . The other is anti-Stalinism par excellence, but still Marxist, internationalist and progressive.

We can prove that modern Russia is a conservative Christian country with traditional values and dissociate Russia from the Stalinist past. It can work on right wing America, MAGA. But the same argument only exacerbates the hatred and Russophobia among the American Left.

The liberal Trostkyist Left hates Stalinism exactly because it had some non-communist nationalist and imperial features. So left liberal Russophobia is incurable. Right Russophobia can be improved with better knowledge of what contemporary Russia is.

The only exception in the American Right that has deep and incurable Russophobia are neocons. Because they are trotskyists to the core.

They use liberal capitalist American hegemony to internationalise fully the humanity and prepare World Revolution as Trotsky (not Stalin) conceived it. Stalin was national-Bolshevik. Trotsky was international-Bolshevik.

All that is reflected in the Trump’s politics vis-a-vis Russia. On one side the conservative ideals and MAGA principles, on the other the pressure of left-liberal progressive Deep State and neocons (like Lindsey Graham or Richard Blumental). That explains Trump’s hesitation.

https://alexanderdugin.substack.com/p/russophobia-in-the-us-right-liberal