Useful Idiots or Fellow Travelers? The Relationship between the American Far Right and Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-83
Author(s):  
George Michael
Keyword(s):  
Far Right ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition as a Common Framework of Fascism and the Contemporary Far Right

Fascism ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-51
Author(s):  
Tamas Dezso Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Western World ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Groups

Abstract The relationship between far-right political streams and fascism is a recurring topic in scientific literature. However, we find a low number of academic publications which try to create a framework for their similarities. This article uses Zeev Sternhell’s theory of fascism as a tool to measure different interpretations of fascism and the far right. According to its basic statement, there exists an anti-Enlightenment tradition in the Western world, which could serve as a substratum of these streams. This proves two points. Firstly, that there are several political groups which share a very similar political vision, even if their levels of aggression and radicalism are different. This is the reason why many neo-fascist, post-fascist, ‘populist’ and conservative parties have interchangeable rhetorical clichés and ideological patterns. Second, it shows that Western countries could successfully fight the rise of upcoming anti-democratic forces through strengthening the values of the Enlightenment-tradition.

The Stakes of Holocaust Remembrance in the Twenty-First Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 205-228
Author(s):  
Jelena Subotić
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The Relationship

This concluding chapter takes a broader view of the importance of Holocaust remembrance after communism. It also looks at how other states in the region have adopted their political memories to fit the new political environment. The chapter also opens up a discussion about the larger implications of this variety of Holocaust remembrance practices, especially practices aimed at memory inversion and repurposing of fascist crimes into crimes of communism. Specifically, it discusses the relationship between Holocaust remembrance and the rise of the far-right movements in Europe, and the danger that inverted Holocaust remembrance presents in relegitimizing fascist movements in the present. The chapter ends with a call for memory solidarity—for groups to acknowledge, remember, and care for the memory of others as a foundation for building a more just society.

Social policy and populism: welfare nationalism as the new narrative of social citizenship

2018 ◽  
pp. 161-180
Author(s):  
Markus Ketola ◽  
Johan Nordensvard
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
The People ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter investigates the relationship between far-right populism and social policy. The chapter argues that an approach anchored in framing and policy narratives will yield new understandings of how far-right populist discourses have come to challenge social democratic and neoliberal welfare narratives. The new narrative challenges and denigrates the economic and political elite as self-serving and corrupt, claiming to represent the interest of the ‘people’ instead. In defining ‘people’, the interests of certain societal groups are prioritised on the bases of culture or ethnicity. Importantly for social policy, this chapter argues, in this universal social rights and social citizenship are reframed in ethno-nationalist and welfare chauvinist terms. The chapter draws upon the case of Sweden in order to briefly exemplify the discursive strategies at play.

scholarly journals Trumpism and the European Far Right: An Analysis of Trumpism’s Impact on the Post-2016 AfD, Lega Nord, and Fidesz

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-84
Author(s):  
Dawid Aristotelis Fusiek ◽  
Cecilia Marconi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Far Right ◽  
European Context ◽  
Lega Nord ◽  
Alternative Für Deutschland ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

The paper aims at investigating the relationship between Trumpism and the European far-right parties. The combination of shared ideological cores with the confrontation of similar “enemies” has resulted in the creation of an unprecedented relationship, wherein Trump takes the role of “international godfather” and inspiration for the European far right. To examine this relation, the paper focuses on references to Donald Trump and his policies and statements from 2016 to 2020 in the discourse of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Hungarian Civilian Alliance (Fidesz), and Lega Nord (Lega). The examination of the discourse of the three parties about security, immigration, foreign policy, and corruption shows that these parties have utilised Trumpism in three manners. Firstly, they have employed Trumpism to normalise certain pre-existing far-right ideologies and practices within their national and European context. Secondly, they have emulated Trump’s discourse and policies to capitalise on his popularity and support their national endeavours. Thirdly, they have used Trump’s fight and ideas to justify national measures, beliefs, criticism, or political goals. This paper thus aims to establish the leitmotifs governing the use of Trumpism by European far right to set the framework for future more critical analyses and a better understanding of this unprecedented relationship.

scholarly journals Rally 'round the Barracks. Version1.1 (July 6th 2021)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Villamil ◽  
Stuart James Turnbull-Dugarte ◽  
José Rama
Keyword(s):  
Military Personnel ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Knowl Edge ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Military Facilities ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

Literature on the determinants of far-right support has increased markedlyduring the last few years, expanding our knowledge on who votes for these par-ties. Little is known, however, about the relationship being a member of the mil-itary and voting for the far-right. Recent scandals within the armed forces ofsome developed democracies underscore this gap. In this paper, we argue thatthere is an ideological affinity between the military and far-right parties based onshared values over nationalism and authoritarianism. We use two distinct empir-ical strategies to test this argument in Spain. First, we pool together data fromseveral survey rounds to show that individual military personnel are significantlymore prone to support Spain’s new populist radical right-wing party, VOX. Sec-ond, we show that the location of military facilities across Spain is linked to highersupport for VOX. Using spatial statistics, we show evidence of a diffusion effect.Our findings are relevant to both the literature on far-right support and our knowl-edge of civil-military relationships.

scholarly journals Britain First and the UK Independence Party: Social Media and Movement-Party Dynamics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Davidson ◽  
Mabel Berezin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Online Sources

Social movement scholars have recently turned their attention to the interactions between political parties and social movements, but little is known about how social media have impacted these relationships, despite widespread adoption of these technologies. We present a case study of the relationship between Britain First, a far-right anti-Muslim social movement, and the U.K. Independence Party, the Eurosceptic political party that spearheaded the Brexit campaign. The movement appeared marginal in the press but it dominated social media, and used this presence to support to the party. We examine the dynamics of the relationship between these groups from 2013 until 2017, drawing upon data from social media, newspapers, and other online sources, and focusing both interactions on between elites and rank-and-file supporters. Our findings illustrate how far-right groups have used new technologies to generate an unprecedented amount of popular support and to attempt to influence the political mainstream.

scholarly journals Nativist Authoritarian Far-right Flirtations with Progressive Education: Exploring the Relationship in Interwar Switzerland

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-403
Author(s):  
Anja Giudici ◽  
Giorgia Masoni ◽  
Thomas Ruoss
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Education ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Relationship

Progressive education is generally thought to bear little commonality with authoritarianism and nativism. However, several studies show far-right governments and movements embracing progressive tenets. This article investigates the reasons behind this phenomenon by confronting the educational ideas of key far-right parties and educators in interwar German- and Italian-speaking Switzerland. Our systematic analysis of texts produced by these actors suggests that they subscribed to progressivism not in spite of their political views, but precisely because it aligned with their authoritarian and nativist ideology. This finding calls for more scholarship exploring and theorising the relationship between political ideologies and (progressive) educational ideas and movements.

The Relationship Between Hate Groups and Far-Right Ideological Violence

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 310-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Adamczyk ◽  
Jeff Gruenewald ◽  
Steven M. Chermak ◽  
Joshua D. Freilich
Keyword(s):  
Far Right ◽  
Hate Groups ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Rethinking the Scopes Trial: Cultural Conflict, Media Spectacle, and Circus Politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
TOM ARNOLD-FORSTER
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Cultural Conflict ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Scopes Trial ◽  
Media Spectacle ◽  
The Relationship

The Scopes trial has long been interpreted through claims about science and religion and about individual rights and liberties. This article recovers a different debate about the trial's political history that emerged in the later 1920s and resonated down the twentieth century. Here the trial figured as a fraught national circus, which raised difficult questions about the relationship between media spectacle and cultural conflict in the United States. The trial's circus dynamics intensified the conflicts it staged without ever actually resolving them; this trap was then perceived and negotiated in different ways by contemporary liberals, conservatives, socialists, and far-right activists.

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