The communists and our ruling managerial class are converging. By Eric S. Raymond.

The Communists are still running a KGB active-measures program from the Cold War era. Their goal is the outright demoralization and destruction of the United States and of Western civilization in general.

The managerialists are less evil; they don’t have that strong strain of nihilism, they just want 99.9% of humanity to be managed, legible, and subservient to elite technocrats. Live in a pod, own nothing, eat ze bugs.

But there’s also a strong convergence of interests. Both factions hate personal autonomy and individualism. This manifests as short-term goals of disarming citizens and institutionalizing censorship of their speech. Both more generally receive populism as a direct threat to their goals and interests — best they can agree that Donald Trump is the Great Satan.

They both hate whiteness:

Both groups racialize their politics, but they do it for different reasons and with different emphasis. To Communists, race conflict has largely replaced class conflict in their system, with virtuous brown oppressed people pitted against evil white oppressors and the precondition for Utopia being that “whiteness” is utterly destroyed.

Managerialists don’t have a primary fixation on destroying whiteness, but they do notice that it’s inconvenient and want it to be neutralized as a political force. To a managerialist, white females are easily managed by their craving for social approval, but white males are stubborn sand in the gears of the managerial state and need to be either co-opted or ground into submission.

The communists and the managerial class are converging:

Because of this convergence it can often be difficult to tell whether a political actor is running on Communist premises or managerialist ones. But sometimes the difference is important.

I think American conservatives are groping towards a better understanding of the distinction when they use the term “globalist”. They’re pointing at the trans-national managerial elite as a class in a very Marxist sense, a group that exhibits convergent behaviors driven by common political and economic interests.