Out of the way Joe the Plumber, Joe the Terrorist is the conservative movement’s new man.

Whether or not Joe Stack had anything to do with the Tea Party, and I suppose he didn’t since his manifesto celebrated the communist value of mutual aid and criticized not just the banks, but capitalism as a whole, the celebration of the “heroism of Joe Stack” in certain sectors of the extreme right wreaks of a reactionary rise of fascism willing to grasp onto any act of white male extremism as a revolutionary deed, the revolution celebrated by the charming grand dame of ignorance and thuggish brutality, Sarah Palin.

When teleological, dialectical Marxists and other crisis-loving leftists long for the economic pain felt by millions around the world to catch up with the white middle class to unleash a revolutionary, anti-capitalist, pro-environment, pro-labor social movement, they’re missing one major factor. The American middle class consists of many white racists who hates indigenous, black, and Asian cultures, and is more than willing to mobilize against poor white people’s basic needs to avoid income taxes and to keep the government from spending money on social services for the poor.

Many conservative sectors of the American Middle Class happily watch the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq murdered by drones, bombs, and chemical weapons, delight in seeing educational programs defunded, yawn as thousands of people are expelled from hospitals to die untreated in the streets, chortle as the soil, water, and air are irrevocably contaminated and snooze while this “Freedom-loving” country maintains the world’s largest prison population. Suddenly impacted by the perceived threat of a higher income tax, these dull middle class Americans finally found something to care about—keeping the rich from being taxed.

Of course, rich people don’t get rich simply by “working hard.” Rich people get rich coercing other people to work hard. Their wealth is built on the backs of working people around the world. This is a brutal fact of capitalism.

So despite the fact that Joe Stack was advocating communism, against stupid wars, for health care, and against the misappropriation of public taxes into bailing out Wall Street rather than the global poor, what thrills the fascist right about their newly adopted “Joe,” is the old-fashioned fight over “big-government” and “taxes.”

And such, it is a bitter irony that by protesting taxes on the rich, the Tea Party is aiding the very corporations and bankers whose bailouts they oppose. With bailouts or ridiculously low taxes, the corporations and bankers win.

As for me, I’m not one to celebrate upper-middle class plane owners smashing into the bureaucratic offices of the IRS. The earth is dying. People are suffering, really suffering, from ecological contamination, new forms of slavery, the criminalization of disease, and the brutality of capitalist thugs. There are real targets to be hit: the direct actors of global corporate rule.

When the thug right stops caring about their middle class salaries, stops acting like racist extremists, and unites with the global front against capitalism and for mutual aid, human decency, health, education, and community safety, I’ll be the first to join them in their protests. As long as they fight for their petty, middle-class interests and they continue to turn their backs on the global poor, their fascist tendencies will not go unchecked. Their brutality will be fought. Their senseless celebration of terrorism and violence will be revealed.

Once again, the American conservative movement has proven to be the world’s #1 supporter of the use of violent extremism rather than civil social engagement. From the corpses they’ve piled in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan to their Tea Party celebrations of Joe Stack, the American conservative movement continues to demonstrate their long-standing desire for violence, patriotic fervor, contempt for the global poor.

From the grassroots, fascism is rising in the United States and taking on a new tone. The extreme conservative movement’s celebration and promotion of Joe Stack’s politically ambiguous domestic terrorism will likely continue at the grassroots level and could persist until it has re-united with state policy and evolved into a violent, extremist state whose military might is regularly deployed to continue the imperialist attack on the global and U.S. poor, public health and education, and the grassroots, democratic potentiality we aspire towards.