If she is anything like FDR, she will be the most effective fascist of the 20th century for sure. FDRism is incompatible with a progressivr US foreign policy, it is in fact predicated on a regressive foreign policy to provide plunder to distribute to the deserving citizenry
That’s not really accurate. FDR had the least imperialist foreign policy of any US president by far. He made genuine anti-imperialist bonds with Latin America because he had actual communists in his administration. The US entered its new imperialist phase after his death. Greg Grandin has good work on this in Empire’s Workshop and America América.
Not that I think AOC would be anti-imperialist or anything, but FDR was not an imperialist expansionist in comparison to other US presidents. US social democracy was built on settler colonial wealth and unionized labor. Exploitation of the global south accelerated at the same time as the US working class was crushed by neoliberalism
If she is anything like FDR, she will be the most effective fascist of the 20th century for sure. FDRism is incompatible with a progressivr US foreign policy, it is in fact predicated on a regressive foreign policy to provide plunder to distribute to the deserving citizenry
That’s not really accurate. FDR had the least imperialist foreign policy of any US president by far. He made genuine anti-imperialist bonds with Latin America because he had actual communists in his administration. The US entered its new imperialist phase after his death. Greg Grandin has good work on this in Empire’s Workshop and America América.
Not that I think AOC would be anti-imperialist or anything, but FDR was not an imperialist expansionist in comparison to other US presidents. US social democracy was built on settler colonial wealth and unionized labor. Exploitation of the global south accelerated at the same time as the US working class was crushed by neoliberalism