[lbo-talk] The Modern Right in Europe

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 08:23:13 PST 2006


On 2/10/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:


> 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.

Fascists of the Enlightenment. I love it.

-- Andy



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