Quotes About Far-right

the politics of the far-right – what it is, the social constituencies from which it tends to draw its support and the ideological devices it uses – are intimately connected to the type of society, politics and conflicts, and insecurities bequeathed by capitalist development.

If you think this ethnocentric stage—with its tendencies toward racism, sexism/patriarchy, misogyny, mega-tribal dominance, oppression, and fundamentalist religion—sounds a bit like hardcore far-Right Republicans, and that it starts to push into recognized Trump territory, you'd be right.

But French new antisemitism has also become intertwined with far-right infiltration into protests by the 'yellow vests' (gilets jaunes), which initially began as protests against fuel price rises but have morphed into wider antagonisms against falling living standards and elitism.

Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

Among the leading purveyors of Holocaust denial arguments are far-right, neo-Nazi, and white power groups. Their adulation of Nazi ideology, "Aryan" superiority, and, above all, Adolf Hitler make them perfect candidates for denial. They are masters of inconsistency. They argue that murdering the Jews would have been entirely justified but that it never happened. I suppose you could call this the "no, but" argument: "No, it didn't happen. But it should have.

Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.

The reality is that far-right extremism is no longer dominated by loners.

The ideological gap between the parties has indeed widened, and party discipline has increased. But the source of the widening gap is that Democrats have moved moderately to the center, while Republicans have moved to the far right. And the main source of deadlock is that Republicans have decided to refuse to compromise with Democrats, the better to destroy both Democrats and effective government.

The 'rise of the far-right' in particular is such a trope in journalism that the far-right is said to be rising even when it is collapsing, as it did in Britain during the last decade.

Her decision to do so – when she had a working majority in Parliament – was not pure vanity. It was the inevitable result of the völkisch rhetoric she had adopted when she told her first Tory Party conference as leader that 'if you believe you're a citizen of the world, you're a citizen of nowhere', openly evoking the far-right (and Stalinist) trope of 'rootless cosmopolitans' who did not deserve citizenship.

the far-right is the white man's #MeToo movement. Not only am I not guilty, but I am in fact a victim.

People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.

I don't say for a moment that the far right is no longer a problem. We have seen the neo-Nazi nutters in Charlottesville in America.

On channels terrified of accusations of bias, or political retribution, comics making jokes about the growing power base of far-right politicians aren't taking the 'easy' route.

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

The themes that I explore, Taika Waititi also explores: how teaching children a sense of 'us and them' breeds a sense of superiority and dehumanises what one perceives as 'otherness'; and why this theme is relevant to today's rise in the far-Right, how children and youth are indoctrinated into extremism and terrorism.

The far right was on the march in the 1930s, and we defeated the fascists through a great united working-class effort. That sense of unity and strength is what gave people confidence to change things.

Enough to using Texas as a political laboratory for testing far-right ideas. Enough to using Texas as a workshop for fattening the wallets of their special interest friends and supporters. And enough of politicians listening only to each other, rather than real Texans.

I don't subscribe to this view that the far-right is somehow in control of the Conservative party from top to toe.

British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right, which is the antithesis of the values this country represents: decency, tolerance, respect.

The singular cocktail of xenophobia, individualism, defence of the rights of women and proclaimed homosexuality that Pim Fortuyn concocted in the Netherlands in 2002 was the key to a lasting electoral success. Similar features also characterize other political movements in northern Europe, such as the Vlaams Belang in Belgium, the Danish Popular Party and the Swedish far right.

okhranka operatives deemed the far right's leaders "uncultured" and "unreliable" and kept them under close surveillance, with good reason.

But there is a long history within the far right of right-wing media positioning itself as the only true and honest media. To promote a world viewpoint distinct from that shared by the majority, it was critical to assert that everyone else simply didn't have the correct information on which to base decisions. That is a far easier task than accusing most of the country of being crazy.