Accusing critics of conspiracy theorizing is a standard tactic to marginalize left power analysis

Evidence

When radical and anti-establishment writers and scholars attempt to analyze the underlying systems that built and uphold power in our world, including the proven existence of covert operations to eliminate threats to those systems, it is common for them to be dismissed as conspiracy theorists. In truth, it is one of the most battle-worn tactics used to bury and marginalize ideas that are inconvenient to those who wield economic and political power, or who feel personally attacked by anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, or anti-racist analyses because the critiques implicate them. Every serious left-wing analyst of power has faced this smear, from Marx onward. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 751

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes the asymmetry Klein develops in this chapter: the same ‘you’re a conspiracy theorist’ smear hits genuine left analysis and Mirror World fantasy alike, collapsing a distinction that matters. — connects to: Playing down the right-wing danger by pathologizing its critics is a lasting tactic. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2042; Conspiracy theories are accessible ways to speak truth to power — Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent, American Conspiracy Theories, 842; Accusing rivals of conspiracy can itself be a defensive projection against real conspiracy exposure — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 111