Systemic and political hostility against the 'left', real and
contrived, has been a key, yet under-recognized aspect of the
history of the modern world for the past two hundred years. By the
1820s, the new, exploitative and destabilizing character of
capitalist industrial production and its accompanying market
liberalizations began creating necessities among the working
classes and their allies for the new, self-protective politics of
'socialism'. But it is evident that, for the new economic system to
sustain itself, such oppositional politics that it necessitated had
to be undermined, if not destroyed, by whatever means necessary.
Through the imperialism of the later 19th century, and with
significant variations, this complex and often highly destructive
dialectical syndrome expanded worldwide. Liberals, conservatives,
extreme nationalists, fascists, racists, and others have all
repeatedly come aggressively and violently into play against
'socialist' oppositions. In this book, Philip Minehan traces the
patterns of such hostility and presents numerous crucial examples
of it: from Britain, France, Germany and the United States; the
British in India; European fascism, the United States and Britain
as they operated in China and Indochina; from Kenya, Algeria and
Iran; and from Central and South America during the Cold War. In
the final chapters, Minehan addresses the post-Cold War, US-led
triumphalist wars in the Middle East, the ensuing refugee crises,
neo-fascism, and anti-environmentalist politics, to show the ways
that the syndrome within which anti-leftist antagonism emerges, in
its neoliberal phase since the 1970s, remains as self-destructive
and dangerous as ever
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