Far-right politics
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Far right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. The terms are often used to imply that someone is an extremist. The terms have been used by different scholars in somewhat conflicting ways.
Far right politics commonly involve supremacism — a belief that superiority and inferiority is an innate reality between individuals and groups — and a complete rejection of the concept of social equality as a norm. Far right politics often support segregation; the separation of groups deemed to be superior from groups deemed to be inferior. Far right politics also commonly include authoritarianism, nativism, racism and xenophobia.
The ideologies usually associated with the far right include fascism, Nazism and other ultra-nationalist, religiously extreme or reactionary ideologies.
The term radical right refers to sections of the far right that promote views which are very conservative in traditional left-right terms, but which aim to break with prevailing institutions and practices. The radical right does not have a clear straightforward structure, but rather consists of overlapping subcultures with diverse styles of rhetoric, dress and symbolism whose cohesion comes from the use of alternative system of communications.
At the far right, the limitations of the conventional left-right political spectrum become apparent. Whereas small government and laissez-faire capitalism are sometimes considered right-wing ideals, Fascists favour a dominant state that intervenes in economic as well as social spheres. For example, the 2010 manifesto of the 'far right' British National Party supports the National Health Service, "free university education to deserving students", reversal of rail privatization, nationalization of telecommunications infrastructure, and "an active protectionist policy" for British industry .
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External links
- Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe
- Extreme Right Electorates and Party Success Research Group (EREPS)
- The Extreme Right Vote in Western Europe
- The Far-Right Fringe - slideshow by The Nation
- Political Opportunity Structures and Right-Wing Extremist Party Success, from the European Journal of Political Research
- Right-Wing or Reactionary Neo-Populism: A Critique, from the Journal of Policy History
- Far Right and Anti-Immigrant Politicians on the Rise in Europe - video interview with Slavoj Žižek by Democracy Now!
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