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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAGAINST THE FASCIST CREEP LOOKS AT HOW FASCISM PRESENTS A THREAT TO THE LEFT; HOW WE CAN FIGHT IT
AGAINST THE FASCIST CREEP LOOKS AT HOW FASCISM PRESENTS A THREAT TO THE LEFT, AND HOW WE CAN FIGHT ITFascism, as an iconoclastic and revolutionary political orientation, is one that has made itself dynamic by bucking the traditions associated with the Right. While it is anti-liberal, anti-multicultural, and anti-democratic, it is also anti-conservative. As it believes in a mythical understanding of a pure past, it believes that the institutions of the past, the authorities that exist today, can no longer be conserved. Instead, they need a radical solution; one that destroys the conventional order and rebuilds one that they believe is a modernist interpretation of the empires of the deep past. This is not an accurate interpretation of historical nations, of course, but instead a reactionary fantasy that is colored by unrestrained hatreds, the desire to oppress, and the need to rethink contemporary society and reinstate explicit inequality.
To do this project, fascism looks to many movements and ideas associated with the Left in an attempt to get to the root of the problem and to recruit revolutionaries who could be swayed by their romanticism. This process is where fascists use Leftist projects for Right wing core ideas, like inequality, racial nationalism, and a cult of violent masculinity. This process was not just true in interwar Europe, but even today as neo-fascism attempts to make its way into social movements founded on Left wing principles. Anti-imperialism, radical ecology, animal rights, post-colonialism, broad-based anti-capitalism, and other projects have all seen attempts at entryism by the far right, and they have worked hard to have their ideas infect these political tendencies, so much so that often times people are unaware that a fascist politic has made its way into their political vision.
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In the U.S., the development of national anarchism through groups like the Bay Area National Anarchists and the National Anarchist Tribal Alliance of New York, have been a part of this continuous reimagining, and they had the potential to try and recruit from the left. Projects like Attack the System, the national-anarchist, pan-secessionist project we have discussed before, has attempted to bridge the world of Left and post-left anarchism with fascism, allowing in white nationalists as a real revolutionary force. In the case of the radical environmental movement, where anarchism has intersected with revolutionary forms of ecology, National Anarchism has made larger inroads by exploiting deconstructionist impulses. This was particularly true in the case of Green Anarchist magazine, which Ross explains was the target of entryism by the syncretic fascist philosopher Troy Southgate.
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AGAINST THE FASCIST CREEP LOOKS AT HOW FASCISM PRESENTS A THREAT TO THE LEFT; HOW WE CAN FIGHT IT (Original Post)
Fantastic Anarchist
Feb 2017
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niyad
(113,315 posts)1. k and r
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)2. Thank you! n/t