This is amazing. Unclear if he's ever read critical/neo-Marxist theory beyond Wikipedia entries, but he's asking a lot of an audience at the Heritage Foundation to know what he's talking about. Okay, now to the meat of his views:
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Globalism is three parts: Climate change ideology, hatred of one's own and another I missed, sorry.
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"The whole point of climatism is to end normal, democratic debate," says Araujo, and now lumps his people alongside Americans, Brexiteers and says the "system" of climate change activists (I guess) want to end freedom of speech.
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"Climate became a debate shutter," says Brazil's foreign minister, complaining about the uproar over the Amazon. Says Trump and Bolsonaro "are the main ones fighting the system," "outside of the globalist pact."
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The speech by the Brazilian foreign minister at
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Yep, Araujo now complaining about the evil left wanting to take red meat away from us.
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"Social justice" is only "a pretext for dictatorship," says Araujo. Now they want to do the same with climate change, he adds. "Brazil is being Otherized." He's firing shots across the bow ahead of a politically fraught week at the UN later this month.
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Concluding statement: "The Amazon is ground zero in the fight against globalism and the recovery of human dignity [or was it soul?]."
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There's a fascinating disconnect between US right and whatever it is Araujo represents: The latter truly sees his politics as a reaction to a left-wing orthodoxy (hence all the snarling at Lacan, Lukacs, and all the other leftist intellectuals he name-checked.)
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Beyond its moping about campus leftists, the American right would never care about these people or engage their ideas (however absurdly) in a foreign policy speech. Araujo offered a distinction between Leninism and Stalinism, as if anyone in
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I'm not sure that's right. At least among the paleo-cons & alt-right, obsessing over cultural Marxism and gender theory is a big big thing.
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Maybe, but they don't actually *read* these texts and try to position themselves within (late 20th century) leftist intellectual discourse. That's what Araujo seemed to be doing.
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No, most of what they "know" about cultural Marxism is anti-Semitic myth. I take it that Araujo is more informed.
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