[lbo-talk] The Modern Right in Europe

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

> Sounds like Germany in the 30' to me. It's just enough that one of  
> those is charismatic enough to make everybody walk the walk and  
> talk the talk and kill the jew and the black and the gay and the rest.
>
> JC Helary

Things have changed since the 1930s.  The modern far right's main  
targets in Europe are immigrants (not so much African as Middle- 
Eastern), neither Jews nor homosexuals.  The cutting edge of the  
modern right are pro-gay, and the anti-immigrant discourse is  
presented as defense of Europe's Enlightenment from the sexist and  
homophobic Muslims who don't assimilate and yet tax the welfare  
state.  In this context, occasional prosecutions of pathetic anti- 
Semites like Ernst Zundel (who denies the Holocaust _and_ believes in  
_UFOs_!!!) are solely for the purpose of providing the state's "anti- 
fascist credibility."  Pym Fortuyn is the type of the modern far  
right vanguard who have helped to transform politics.

Yoshie Furuhashi
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