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'''MAGA Communism''' <ref group="Note">Often displayed as a hashtag: '''''#MAGACommunism'''''.</ref> is an [[alt-right]], [[Neo-fascism|neo-fascist]] subset of the [[Socialist patriotism|patriotic socialist]] movement in the [[United States of America|United States]] and an online slogan which calls for the unification of so-called "[[Marxism|Marxists]]" and the [[reactionary]] [[Make America Great Again|MAGA]] movement in order to oppose the "[[Globalism|globalist]] elite." It is grounded in a number of [[Opportunism|opportunist]] and [[Tailism|tailist]] positions.<ref>{{Web citation |author=Danny Haiphong |date=2022-09-21 |title=A Final Word on “MAGA Communism” and Social Conservatism |url=/cats-d8c4vu/www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LrOJjRaNvQ |newspaper=YouTube |accessdate=2022-09-21}}</ref> Promoters of the MAGA Communist "movement" enjoy very little support in the real world and are almost entirely confined to online spaces, particularly [[alt-tech]] platforms.

{{Short description|American syncretic political movement combining Marxism with right-wing populism}}

[[File:Communists for trump image.jpg|thumb|MAGA communist lawn sign which calls for [[Communist|communists]] to support [[Donald Trump]].]]{{Marxism–Leninism sidebar}}{{National Bolshevism}}{{neo-fascism}}'''MAGA communism'''<ref group="Note">Also stylized as '''MAGA Communism''' and often displayed as a hashtag: '''''#MAGACommunism'''''.</ref> is an American [[political slogan]], [[political movement|movement]], and [[ideology]] that seeks to synthesize [[Marxism|Marxist]] economic policies with the [[Populism|populist]] energy of [[Donald Trump]]'s [[Make America Great Again|MAGA]] [[MAGA movement|movement]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |author=Al-Din, Haz |date=2022-09-18 |title=THE RISE OF MAGA COMMUNISM |url=/cats-d8c4vu/unherd.com/2024/08/why-the-left-hates-maga-communism/ |access-date=February 6, 2025 |work=[[UnHerd]] |archive-date=September 16, 2024 |archive-url=/cats-d8c4vu/web.archive.org/web/20240916165546/https://unherd.com/2024/08/why-the-left-hates-maga-communism/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The ideology, an attempt to develop an American form of [[socialist patriotism]], has been described as "[[alt-left]]", "[[alt-right]]", and "[[Neo-fascism|neo-fascist]]". According to the ''Black Agenda Report'', MAGA communism is grounded in a number of [[reactionary]] and [[right-wing]] positions,<ref>{{Cite web |author=Haiphong, Danny |date=2022-09-21 |title=A Final Word on "MAGA Communism" and Social Conservatism |url=/cats-d8c4vu/www.blackagendareport.com/final-word-maga-communism-and-social-conservatism |newspaper=Black Agenda Report|accessdate=2022-09-21}}</ref> while ''[[The Guardian]]'' views it as a "[[fringe movement]]" that attempts to rebrand communism to appeal to disaffected [[Conservatism in the United States|conservatives]].<ref name="Deranged" />

The so-called "MAGA Communists" have promoted [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]], [[racism]], [[antisemitism]], [[homophobia]], [[transphobia]], and [[anti-intellectualism]] in order to appeal to other members of the [[Far-right politics|far-right]].<ref>{{Web citation |author=Alfonso Casal |date=2022-09-22 |title=Editorial: On “Patriotic Socialism” and “MAGA Communism” |url=/cats-d8c4vu/theredphoenixapl.org/2022/09/22/editorial-on-patriotic-socialism-and-maga-communism/ |newspaper=[[The Red Phoenix]] |accessdate=2022-09-22}}</ref>

== ~~Description~~ ==

==History==

In late 2022, political commentator and social media influencer [[Jackson Hinkle]] began advocating for the idea of "MAGA communism", leading it to trend on [[Twitter]]. ''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'' described it as a "swirl of [[social conservatism]], [[American patriotism|patriotism]] and subversive energy", and described Hinkle as coming from "the [[far-right]] entertainment playbook by agitating on livestreams".<ref name="Kim 2022">{{cite web |last=Kim |first=Eddie |date=October 17, 2022 |title=What the Hell Is MAGACommunism? |url=/cats-d8c4vu/web.archive.org/web/20240722215503/https://acp.us/declaration|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> ''[[The Free Press (newsletter)|The FP]]'' described the ACP as a MAGA communist party,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Steinberg |first=Julia |title=The MAGA Communists Launched a Party |url=/cats-d8c4vu/www.repubblica.it/venerdi/2024/11/08/news/elezioni_usa_trump_comunista_vermont_viaggi_da_fermo-423605605/ |access-date=9 November 2024 |work=[[La Repubblica]] |date=8 November 2024}}</ref>

The slogan appeared in August 2022 on [[Twitter]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}} Its most notable promoters are [[Jackson Hinkle]] and [[Infrared]], whose rhetoric concerning this slogan has inspired a small online clique of "MAGA Communist" propagandists and trolls to emerge, largely from their respective followers.

[[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]] commentators have variously described MAGA communism as a [[Reactionary|reactionary]] [[alt-right]] ideology and a form of "[[tankie]] [[communism]]".<ref name="Kim 2022" /> [[Middle East Media Research Institute|MEMRI]] grouped MAGA communism as part of the wider [[National Bolshevism|National Bolshevik]] movement.<ref name=MEMRI>{{cite web|url=/cats-d8c4vu/web.archive.org/web/20241230135051/https://thespectator.com/podcast/does-maga-communism-make-any-sense/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

While this clique is highly vocal, it has convinced very few people, and remains almost entirely internet-based. Their social media strategy is to spam content, no matter how nonsensical, to create virality through engagement and the illusion of popularity. It has yet to be organized in an actual political party or have its theory practiced.

Daniel HoSang, a professor at [[Yale University]] and an expert on modern American [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] movements, told ''[[Motherboard (website)|Motherboard]]'' that "[MAGA communism] doesn't necessarily mean communism in the literal sense of, say, demanding [[collective ownership]]. I think it's meant to be a kind of cultural invocation—a defense from that which the elites want you to believe. It suggests something about how people's political moorings are unsettled, and the search to find new bearings".<ref name="Kim 2022" /> Brian Hughes, the associate director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at [[American University]], said: "Various figures are trying to take advantage of the moment. Skull-mask [neo-fascist]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hummel |first=Kristina |date=2021-12-22 |title=The Iron March Forum and the Evolution of the "Skull Mask" Neo-Fascist Network |url=/cats-d8c4vu/www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/what-is-maga-communism |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

MAGA Communism is comparable to [[Strasserism]] given their mutual opposition to [[Financial capital|finance capital]] and "globalism" as well as their pro-[[Ruralism|rural]], pro-[[Petty bourgeoisie|small business]], [[Ultranationalism|ultranationalist]] attitude, effectively echoing Strasser's "guild socialism".

''[[Compact (American magazine)|Compact Magazine]]'' argued that the movement was a response to broad dissatisfaction amongst the American working class with the traditional left's abandonment of [[economic issues]] in favor of [[cultural politics]].<ref name="Compact">{{Cite news |last=Fazi |first=Thomas |date=September 22, 2022 |title=What Is MAGA Communism? |url=/cats-d8c4vu/jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/379573/the-three-stooges-go-to-lebanon/|title=The Three Stooges Go to Lebanon|author=Hayes, Kathleen|date=February 26, 2025|access-date=March 11, 2025|work=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]]}}</ref> Hayes told the ''[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]]'' that MAGA communism appeals to a modern American left that is sympathetic to "Middle Eastern [[jihadism]]" and warned that the movement could forge a [[Red–green–brown alliance|red–green alliance]] with [[Islamist]]s.<ref name=IslamicSocialism/> MEMRI stated that Hinkle and other MAGA communism advocates promote Islamism and are "emblematic of the broader [[White jihad|White Jihad]] movement".<ref name="MEMRI" />

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== See also ==

While MAGA communism is seen as supporting [[Donald Trump]] and [[Trumpism]], Celia Fernández of ''[[El País]]'' wrote "they don’t fully agree with Trump’s political vision. But addressing the working class through him, they explain, is the only way to channel working-class militancy away from [[capitalism]] and towards a communist future".<ref>{{cite web |last=Fernández|first=Celia|date=10 September 2024 |title=Trumpist communists: The anti-imperialist MAGA movement|accessdate=29 March 2025 |url=/cats-d8c4vu/www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDGSKJyRPr0|title=Hasan, Vivek does NOT represent my movement.|work=[[Haz Al-Din]] on [[YouTube]]|date=September 9, 2023|accessdate=March 29, 2025}}</ref>

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* [[~~Infrared~~]]

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== See also ==

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* [[Alt-left]]

* [[Alt-lite]]

* [[Alt-right]]

* [[Beefsteak Nazi]]

* ''[[Being and Time]]'', book by Martin Heidegger

* [[Christian communism]]

* [[Dasein]]