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I'd like to hear more about these unresolved contradictions if you don't mind.
Right wingers are unable to properly confront the failures and contradictions of capitalism, nor can they abide the necessary restraints on individual businesses that the liberal state imposes in order to stabilize the capitalist system. They attribute all of this to a shadowy conspiracy of elites with purely evil motives, frequently casting this conspiracy as communist. This tendency goes at least as far back as the John Birch Society, who took it as an article of faith that Eisenhower was a communist. Essentially, anti-communism collapses into self-negation through its failures to resolve the contradictions of capitalism.
There are Marxists who are much smarter than me and can probably explain this in more depth than I can, but that's the basic version.
I think it might be dumber than that. I think they might be referring to our backing of dictatorships as backing communism because they think communism is when dictator. If you asked them to specify they would probably say Saudi Arabia and shit.
I think that may be more the liberal mindset. Conservatives don't mind dictators a la Pinochet as long as they're right wing and US aligned.
I don't think Conservatives would dare use the word "dictator" to describe the likes of Pinochet. After all, everybody knows that Pinochet brought the freedoms of the free market (best system in the world, best and most freest ever) to the oppressed Chilean people who were suffering under ... checks notes ... mild social democracy.
I could be wrong though, I'm sure there are some really violet chuds that would say he was a dictator and that was a good thing because leftist bad