John Birch societies all over the world

Evan wrote:

and supported the Ron Paul campaign in 2008

Persuant to my previous post, I find it hard to imagine the Ron Paul movement having much traction outside of the USA, and to a lesser extent, Canada. I'm not even sure how I would begin to explain his ideology to non-North Americans.

Though I'm taken to understand that Freemen On The Land has made some relatively strong inroads into the UK, and they share a lot of the same paranoiac worldview as the US-style anti-globalists.
 
Yep, Paul has substantial overlap with the anti-EU movement - but there're a lot of differences too. To a large extent, America is a country founded on ideals: "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness"; the Constitution; the Bill of Rights. We haven't ever implemented them perfectly, but in a very real sense, they're the guiding assumptions behind our political debates.

European countries aren't. Yes, political movements in them have followed those ideals, but they aren't baked into European national consciousnesses in anything close to the same way they are in America.
 
Could there be John Birch societies (Anti-communist, right wing to far-right) organizations in different countries?

Does not have to be named the John Birch Society or have ties to it.

The most plausible way would be for the Cold War to got hot in a way reminiscent of Red Storm Rising or Hackett's Third World War. Big world war, it kills a lot of people, but nukes don't fly. Ultimately it reaches a conclusion, but whatever it is western-communist enmity continues with a vengeance. As part of the reaction to that you could see far-right anticommunist advocacy groups start popping up around the world.
 
Yep, Paul has substantial overlap with the anti-EU movement - but there're a lot of differences too. To a large extent, America is a country founded on ideals: "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness"; the Constitution; the Bill of Rights. We haven't ever implemented them perfectly, but in a very real sense, they're the guiding assumptions behind our political debates.

European countries aren't. Yes, political movements in them have followed those ideals, but they aren't baked into European national consciousnesses in anything close to the same way they are in America.

Well, according to what I've just been reading, Farage has advocated devolution as an alternative to Scottish independence, which he opposes. This would be somewhat akin to Paul's states' rights approach, though as you suggest, probably less rooted in overarching philosophical ideals. (Sorry for the mixed metaphor there.)

And I don't think Paul would argue for pulling out of international bodies on the grounds that the US could then spend more money on the national health care system, as Farage argued in the case of Brexit, since Paul is a priori opposed to federally mandated social programs.

I'm also pretty sure that neither Farage, nor any other significant player in UK politics, is advocating unrestricted ownership of firearms as a check against state power, which is a big part of the Ron Paul agenda.
 
World League For Freedom And Democracy

Better known as the World Anti-Communist League. Official branches all over the world, plus numerous fellow-travellers. And I'm guessing significant Bircher overlap in the USA.

Though I don't know to what extent WACL grandees like Chiang Kai Shek and Syngmann Rhee would have shared the entirety of the Bircher worldview. As I've said, I think anti-globalism(as opposed to straightforward anti-Communism), tends to be more of an American obsession.
 
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