Liberal Campism

A specific form of Reverse Campism and Pro-Western Campism centered on liberal democracy and its institutions as the object of loyalty and defense. Liberal Campism describes those who, whatever their nominal ideology, consistently align with liberal democratic powers, frameworks, and interventions—defending NATO expansion as "spreading freedom," justifying Western military intervention as "humanitarian," treating liberal democracy as the unquestioned horizon of political possibility. The liberal campist doesn't see themselves as taking sides; they see themselves as defending universal values. But the pattern of which particular interventions they defend, which particular violations they excuse, which particular empires they serve reveals the camp: always the West, always the liberal powers, always the self-proclaimed defenders of freedom.

Example: "He condemned human rights abuses everywhere—except when committed by NATO members, which were always 'complicated' or 'necessary' or 'not the same.' Not hypocrisy, just Liberal Campism: the West is always the exception."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Neoliberal Campism

A specific form of Liberal Campism centered on defense of the neoliberal order—the post-1980s consensus of deregulation, privatization, free trade, austerity, and market fundamentalism. Neoliberal Campism describes those who align not just with Western powers but specifically with the economic architecture those powers have built: the WTO, IMF, World Bank, free trade agreements, structural adjustment programs, and the global regime of capital mobility. They defend neoliberalism not as one economic policy among others but as the natural, inevitable, and only reasonable way to organize economies—and they defend the institutions that enforce it against any challenge, whether from the left (protectionism) or the right (nationalism). Neoliberal Campism is the camp of the Davos set, the economics departments, the policy consensus that presents itself as beyond ideology.

Example: "He'd criticize any policy that interfered with 'free markets'—except when Western powers imposed 'free trade' by force, which was always 'helping them develop.' Pure Neoliberal Campism: the market is sacred, and the West is its prophet."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

Pro-Western Campism

The explicit alignment with Western imperial powers, colonial projects, and geopolitical interests by individuals or groups who may otherwise identify with anti-imperial or anti-colonial traditions. Pro-Western Campism is the positive formulation of Reverse Campism—the active choice to camp with the West, to defend its institutions, to justify its interventions, and to adopt its framing of global conflicts. This alignment may be rationalized through exceptionalist arguments (the West is different), through appeals to lesser-evilism (the alternatives are worse), through adoption of Western liberal values as universal standards, or through simple capture by Western institutions and funding. Pro-Western Campism describes the intellectual and political position of those who, whatever their origins or rhetoric, consistently find themselves on the side of Western power in global conflicts.

Example: "His editorials always ended up justifying Western intervention, no matter the context—not because he'd thought each case through, but because Pro-Western Campism was his default position, the lens through which he viewed all geopolitics."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026