From Red Menace to Green Threat

Islamophobia, Capitalism & Genocide

Morning Comrades.

The 80th anniversary of defeat of Nazi Germany is tomorrow and whilst that feat in itself deserves several dispatches I wanted to focus our attention away from the historical aspect of it and look into our reality and foreseeable future. Obviously, the realities of the act that spurred the defeat of German and by proxy, Western Capitalist ideology, tie deeply into the following, so by all means, please read the later with that in mind.

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 left a vacuum in the ideological architecture of U.S. imperialism. For nearly half a century, American and NATO political discourse, military spending, foreign intervention, and domestic repression had been justified by the existential threat of “Communism.” When this enemy vanished, the capitalist ruling class—dependent on perpetual conflict to secure profit, discipline labour, and maintain hegemony—required a new adversary. Islam, particularly politicised or revolutionary Islam emerging in the Global South, was quickly recast as the next civilisational threat. Let us then explore the historical, ideological, and materialist mechanisms that enabled the U.S. capitalist class to transform Islam into its post-Soviet bogeyman. Furthermore, we will examine how this transformation was a response not to religious doctrine, but to Islamic movements that had become significant forces of anti-colonial, socialist, and Marxist-aligned resistance to Western imperialism all the while understanding that their “red menace” still acts as a main motivator, rent-free in their dangerously aggressive minds.

Additionally, feel free to tap into previous dispatches on this matter here and here.