Certainly, some on the right are imperialists. Some on the left are too - the term 'tankie' originated with hard-left support of what can only be fairly described as Soviet imperialism in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
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That line is most importantly applied to the third world, where anti-colonial regimes *were* very frequently communist and right-wing blocs ostensibly organized along traditionalist lines almost always allied with (or directly represented) colonial projects.
Again, I think we need to be clear here when we say 'anti-colonial' that we don't just mean 'we are against the colonies of our enemies,' but I will grant that a lot of national liberation movements were leftist (though a lot weren't).
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It is fair to call BS on the USA's anti-colonial bona fides because of our bad behavior in Latin America, for instance. It is equally fair to call BS on the anti-colonial bona fides of 'anti-colonial' regimes that openly aligned with the USSR or the PRC.
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The USA shrugged at the efforts of France and Britain to keep their empires for strategic reasons and that's bad. But it is exactly the same shrug offered by 'anti-colonialist' regimes when their own 'side' was doing the imperialism.
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