How come Soviet/Communist conspiracy theories aren't really a thing? The only big one I can think of is active measures.
>>17274980Because conspiracy theories have the goal of weaking the West, Democracy and Western civilisation, taking advantage of the freedom lived there to spread it. Communist countries are anti-western, so they finance conspiracy theories.
>>17274980There are plenty, you just don't speak Russian or interact with them enough to pick up on their own societal rumors and hullabloos. Also a lot of the time it wasn't even a theory, people were extremely aware of their Secret Police apparatus in Warsaw Pact countries and kinda just lived with that as a matter of fact. In the West there's this greater air of mystery and suspense around them due to the inherent contradictions of being a "free society" but which utilizes this sort of nefarious organization which innately deals in criminality and morally dubious behavior.Finally, a lot of conspiracy theory shit is very... American, to put it lightly. Something about the USA's culture just makes this extremely popular over there, e.g. everything about the Federal Reserve being a polemic institution with all sorts of bizarre ideas and stories floating around them, whereas in every other country literally nobody thinks about their own Central Bank at all and the concept of an independent Central Bank is often accepted as normal.
>>17275003The real problem is there's no natural predator for stupid people in America. Where the army, organized crime, religious bureaucracy, or simply education serve to get rid of the truly ignorant and incompetent in other countries, in America such people are allowed to escape and do as they please, and their predations are rewarded.
>>17275046You’ll never be white
>>17274980KGB ran circles around the glowniggers.The FSB literally interfered in the 2016 and 2024 US elections and covered their tracks so well no one can prove they did.
>>17275305Trump won
This is mostly a distribution issue. The far right generally has many conspiracy theories, and seems to be all about spreading their chances, in the hope that one of them will gain traction, so they can piggy back off of the really popular one to spread the rest later on. We saw this post 9/11, which was the 'big' conspiracy theory, from which various small ones could grow.Leftists take a slightly different approach. They generally take one 'big' theory and simply stick with this one. The big conspiracy post WWII on the left was really just the 'Hauntology' of capitalism, the idea mainly proported by the German student left that the Nazi system hadn't been removed after WWII, but had simply mutated into capitalism. This conspiracy was further popularized by the final actions of Heinrich Himmler, who took up huge portions of German industry and centralized it under the SS banner, and under his control. This conspiracy, sometimes also called the 'Fourth Reich', is essentially the big conspiracy theory on the left and is practically the whole of leftist thought today. Just notice how many people are called 'nazis' by the left. That behavior finds its roots in the Fourth Reich theory, of a hidden Nazism, woven into modern capitalism
