Far-right - who are they?

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

The common unifying features of the radicals are a fanatical belief in their own exclusivity, superiority over others, vicious hatred towards those whom they do not understand and do not even try to understand, a passion for cheap populism and hopeless intellectual poverty.

Definition

Far-Right Radicals or Far-Right is the common name for individuals on the right wing of the political sphere. The ideology and political views of the right are extremely variegated and disorderly.

Ultras in the same country may hold completely opposite views and fiercely hate the representatives of the neighboring camp, but there is something in common between them.

Far-right politicians take it as an indisputable fact that people are not born equal and free in their rights. In their opinion, the superiority of some groups of people over others is predetermined by nature itself.others, based on this, there can be no talk of social equality within one state. The reasons for this superiority can be completely different - race, nationality, faith, language, culture.

Therefore, ultra-right views are especially popular among people who consider themselves deprived in some way, failed in life and passionately want to lay the responsibility for this on “foreigners”, “Jews”, “blacks” and others who are not like them.

Fulcrums

Extreme right-wing politicians often adhere to the views of dividing people into groups, the need to isolate "higher" creatures from "lower" ones. The distant ancestors of these people were, apparently, those who fanatically believed that the sun and the entire Universe revolve around them - the "crowns of creation" of the creator.

Accordingly, the instinctive, subconscious distrust of an ordinary person to a “stranger”, that is, a representative of a different race, nationality, religion, is actively exploited. Based on this, even those who do not know what "far right" means, harmoniously fit into their environment due to their anti-immigration, xenophobic views.

For weak-minded people, it is very tempting to take for an indisputable given their superiority over others solely by the fact of being born in one or another higher caste. No need to work on yourself, learn something new, improve in order to surpass a competitor who, by definition, is at a lower level.

Therefore, the far right are those who advocate a policy of repression andrestrictions on the rights of people who have been arbitrarily labeled "inferior". Nationalism, xenophobia, racism, Nazism, chauvinism - all this poison is contained in the teachings of the ultra-right.

Neo-Nazism as the embodiment of ultra-right views

The thirties were a time of surge of radical views in Europe, when more or less outright fascists and chauvinists came to power on almost half of the continent, and they did it with popular support.

The main spokesman of the ultra-right views, which, at the whim of history, became a hysterical, failed artist from Austria, decided to unite the whole world under the rule of the “chosen race” and organized a terrible massacre. It all ended with the complete defeat of the Nazi machine and the apparent collapse of the ultra-right ideas.

No one sympathizes with the vanquished, ultra-right parties and organizations were discredited and dissolved, it seemed that the very idea of reviving the Nazi idea was simply physically impossible. However, after a couple of decades, representatives of the extreme right wing began to gradually raise their heads. In Germany, the National Democratic Party of Germany has become the most typical representative of neo-Nazism.

Disguised as innocent symbols, using cheap demagogy, such politicians began to play on people's dissatisfaction with the existing situation again, offer ready-made quick solutions to problems, and lay responsibility on "outsiders".

Ultras Europe

The last ten years have been a serious test for the common European home. global crisis,sensitively touched by its shadow the European Union, became a powerful catalyst for the flourishing of ultra-right parties. The worse it is for the authorities, the better for the opposition. Organizations and movements that were considered deeply marginal suddenly gained weight and began to receive increasing support in society.

They began to play on the most painful strings - the problems of migration and adaptation of immigrants from Africa and Asia, the economic crisis, social problems. Balancing on the brink of what is permitted, ultra-right organizations of many states of the continent began to make their way into the parliaments, regional representations of their countries. In France, the National Front, in Greece, the Golden Dawn, in Hungary, Jobbik, in the UK, the British National Party.

The ideas and slogans of these parties included extreme Euroscepticism, a call for a return to their national borders and the dismantling of the European Union, a tough policy towards migrants, an emphasis on national characteristics and a return to traditional values.

Russian ultras

The end of the eighties of the last century was the heyday of the ultra-right idea in Russia. The very idea of unhooking the relatively “backward” republics of Central Asia and Transcaucasia from oneself and setting off on a free voyage lightly became an expression of the radicalization of the entire Russian society.

Under these conditions, all sorts of ultra-rightists in Russia raised their heads, nationalist organizations began to grow like mold in a damp and musty basement.

RNE

The most powerful and influential ofneo-Nazi movements in Russia became the Russian National Unity, headed by the local Fuehrer Alexander Barkashov. The RNU did not even hide its neo-Nazi views, their symbolism was painfully similar to the Nazi swastika, and Barkashov spoke about Hitler with a tremor in his voice.

In the image and likeness of the Nazi assault squads, the RNE began to create its own paramilitary squads. The peak of fame for Barkashov was the events of 1993. The RNE militants took part in clashes between the opposition and the authorities on the side of the Supreme Council. As the most disciplined and organized groups, they achieved the most significant tactical successes. Despite the defeat of the opposition, the RNU gained great popularity after those days, their ranks began to replenish with volunteers.

By the end of the nineties, due to the crisis of the genre, insurmountable differences arose in the leadership of the RNU, the movement broke up into several independent parts and today has practically no influence on society.

NBP

The far right is not only neo-Nazis. Paradoxically, the political poles may shift, and outright leftists will find themselves in the right sector. The National Bolshevik Party, founded in the nineties in Russia, was distinguished by a peculiar mixture of genres. The founding father of the National Bolsheviks, Eduard Limonov, managed to combine the principles of Trotskyism, Stalinism, and rabid chauvinism in a new ideology. The writer-politician frankly borrowed even his external image from Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also adopting the style of his speeches,theoretical work.

If we discard all the husks, then the essence of the ideology of the “National Bolsheviks” lies in obvious great-power chauvinism. Paying a debt of justice, it should be said that racism is alien to Eduard Limonov and his students. They are ready to include a Tatar, a Chechen, an Armenian, a Negro among the representatives of the Russian nation, that is, the cultural self-identification of a person is of decisive importance. In other words, the nationalism of the NBP is not biological, but cultural.

The collapse of Eddie

In the early 2000s, the National Bolsheviks were defeated, Limonov was imprisoned for possession of weapons and attempting to organize armed groups.

Although, the version that the scandalous writer simply decided to add a mandatory clause about a prison term for anti-government activities to his political biography is not without truth.

The rest of the ultra-right parties in Russia did not enjoy the authority and support of the population, they were born and disappeared like one-day butterflies.

Far-Right is a common name for different groups of people who profess such a wide range of ideas and views that the camp of the far-Right can be the worst enemies in relation to each other.