>>2557698This is not surprising actually, and I've come to believe there's a kind of ultra-left/BE to ACP pipeline. As much as the ACP claims to be patriotic Americans (which I don't believe), what they're really doing is outflanking the third-worldists who construct their politics around simply being anti-American and anti-Western rather than being for anything. (I don't know if third-worldism is an accurate term, but at any rate bear with me.)
The problem with this ideology is that there are, in fact, anti-American groups and governments in the world that operate on socially and politically reactionary principles. Both things can be true at once: the U.S. government can be genuinely reactionary or oppressive, and so can many of its enemies. But for some people, that's impossible to comprehend. This is all too complicated for people to handle, and it makes you have to think too hard (and too much), but there are historical examples. One example that you might be familiar with were the Axis Powers in World War II who were not remotely pro-American or pro-Atlanticist by any measure.
But I think these third-worldists (again, bear with me with these loose terms) have tried to construct a progressive image around some of these governments that does not reflect reality, which has left them vulnerable to being outflanked by a group like the ACP because those guys OPENLY worship that reactionary stuff and can actually be WELCOMED by those groups and governments, and then they use that to flex on everyone else because they're the most authentic "communists." But that's how the people they're outflanking in this competitive ideological struggle have defined communism.
So, if your standard is: my politics is to support whatever opposes the U.S. like BE does, then why not join the ACP? Or support them? They've just taken that logic to its conclusion. But the plot twist is that you can also become a mirror of what you hate. You end up becoming structured by your opponent. You take on their categories and obsessions like American culture war politics.