In 1864, communist groups, anarchists, socialists and unions of workers in Europe joined to coordinate strategies and policies in what was known as the first international. “The conquest of political power has become the great duty of the working class […] The experience of the past teaches us how the oblivion of fraternal ties among the workers of the different countries is punished with the common defeat of their isolated efforts […] Proletarians from all countries, uníos! ”, Prayed the manifesto of the movement written by Karl Marx.
Century and a half later, a very different international takes shape and strength in Europe and the rest of the world. Nationalist and extremely right forces are joined to combat “globalism” as a common enemy. In a digitalized society and since its privileged position together with the US president, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, has erected as the engine and fuel of that ‘reactionary international’ – a concept that has been using in the academic field and who have recently adopted political leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and Pedro Sánchez to denounce the businessman’s agenda.
The technological tycoon has begun to apply with other extreme right forces of European countries the same strategy that helped Donald Trump win the elections and is using in his favor the algorithm of his social network X to impose his vision in the rest of the world . Musk itself He has presumed of Modify the algorithm to multiply the visibility of its tweets. Last week promised a new change in the social network to “promote more informative and entertainment content.”
“There is an international right -wing international that, despite their great differences between them, feel part of the same political family, share most of their ideological references and key proposals, participate in the same forums and networks and have the same enemies , which are progressivism, globalism, the left or what they call cultural Marxism and dictatorship of unique thought, ”he tells Eldiario.es Steven Forti, historian specialized on the extreme right and author of the book ‘Democracies in extinction’ (Akal). “Musk is a recent member of that international and serves as a motor and link in it,” he adds.
In addition to its publications in X and the column in the Die Welt newspaper supporting Alternative for Germany, one of the most radical formations of that reactionary international, Elon Musk will hold a live conversation on Thursday with the party candidate, Alice Weidel, Tal And as Donald Trump did – Germany celebrates elections on February 23 and AFD is second in the surveys. That conversation with the then US presidency candidate was full of compliments to Trump and became a lies.
Another of the main objectives of the richest man in the world has been the United Kingdom, also governed by the Labor Party. Musk has asked for prison for the prime minister, Keir Starmer, and has even managed to take the agenda and political discourse in the country by accusing without evidence the Labor leader of being an accomplice in a scandal of sexual violations of minors. Musk has also requested the release of Tommy Robinson, one of the best -known extreme right -wing activists in the United Kingdom.
In Spain, the Trump advisor has recently retweeted information from a Polish account related to the populist radical right in which the percentage of immigrant prisoners convicted of rape in Catalonia is discussed. Vox, meanwhile, has applauded Musk’s agenda. “We see progress very nervous with social networks that do not control and cannot impose that censorship on what they do not like, any opinion contrary to global mantras,” said José Antonio Fúster, spokesman for ultra -right -wing training. “The time of globalism and the progressive dictatorship is over.”
He has also supported the ultra -rightist prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, with whom he also negotiates an important contract of 1.5 billion euros to obtain safe satellite communications, and has praised the policies of Víktor Orbán, with whom he met last month during A visit of the Hungarian leader to the sea complex to Lake, in Florida.
“The technological tycoon already acts as a global political power from the power granted by the most powerful megaphone of the digitalized society, and with a very determined ideological agenda,” says Carme Colomina, senior researcher specialized in European Union , misinformation and global policy of the Think Tank Cidob.
“The digital magnates has been practicing what Renée Diresta calls ‘invisible rulers’, but Elon Musk, with their ability to influence the same oval, has become the most shameless, noisy and influential personification of that executive power of that executive power of that executive power That, where appropriate, it is no longer invisible, ”he explains. “Elon Musk appears before the world as an alternative visionary, defender of a freedom of expression that, however, is built with falsehoods and incitement to hate. X is no longer only a social network, it is a propaganda device with the ability to amplify algorithmically certain content.
“Now, Musk applies the same manual that raised Trump to boost different conservative and ultra -right formations in traditionally allied countries in the United States. We are facing an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of those who, precisely, control the public sphere where we should be able to inform ourselves to be aware of it, ”concludes Colomina.
Outside Europe and the US, Musk has also insulted former Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and has shown his support for the controversial conservative and anarco capitalist candidate, Pierre Poilièvre, which some analysts compare with Donald Trump. In Latin America he has reinforced Javier Milei and has faced Brazil of Lula da Silva. The Supreme Court of Brazil concluded that X had been key in the dissemination of bulos that prompted the assault of Bolsonaro followers to Congress and ordered Musk to close those accounts. The tycoon refused and the judges ordered the closure of the platform in the country. Musk ended up yielding to the demands and the social network is already operational in the country. “Brazilian justice may have given an important sign that the world is not obliged to endure the whole of Musk’s extreme right just because it is rich,” President Lula said.
The fight against ‘globalism’
“Musk has a double objective on his agenda. In addition to his economic interests as the richest man in the world, there is an ideological issue, ”says Forti. “Musk has turned in the last four years, especially from the Covid, of some libertarian and even favorable positions to an open society, to very reactionary positions and clearly of the extreme right, thinking that the western world is disappearing and even defending Almost the racial segregation in some tweets that he did a couple of years ago, ”he adds.
“He feels part of this extreme right international that has common enemies and that, according to them, is struggling to save the western world of disappearance.”
In a rally a month of the elections in the US, Musk declared: “I am against globalist power, the UN should not have much power. Who has voted for them? I don’t. We should not have any international treaties that restrict the freedom of Americans and minimize the interference of the federal government. ”
“It is a paradox that Musk stands in one of the most audible voices of the fight against ‘globalism’ and that does, precisely, while exercising global political power, that the right to demand the dissolution of governments and the Liberation of extreme right activists and promote ultra formations and candidates on both sides of the Atlantic, ”says Colomina. “The problem is that how much more disruptive X has become more weak and divided the European Commission is presented to apply its own legislation and put certain limits.”
Carlos Corrochano, professor of critical theories of international relations at the University of Paris, said in a Interview at eldiario.es that “the reactionary international is not necessarily built on large shared convictions, but on the proof that there is a common enemy and the need to operate in a coordinated manner. It also responds to a certain civilization anxiety that pushes them to that union despite the differences that can be seen, for example, with the theory of great replacement. ”
Many have compared the figure of Musk with the role that Steve Bannon, Trump’s ultra strategist who went on to try to lead a first version of the extreme right -right international with The Movement. “Elon Musk is a much more powerful man than Steve Bannon and has achieved much more than him, forge relationships with leaders of the extreme right. When Bannon landed in Europe, his Movement project failed loudly, ”says Forti. “Musk is much more than Steve Bannon.”
#Elon #Musk #engine #world #ultra #wave
