Far Right Politics

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Far Right Politics

• Lecture 4 semester 2

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Theoretical perspectives

• Part 1 Themes found across fascist discourses
• Part 2 Understanding Fascism and Racism Partial
  and Total Racism

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Empirical examples

• Part 3 The Front Nationale in France
• Part 4 Middle-class support for the Front
  Nationale
• Part 5 The UK and fascism

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Part 6 Media Presentations of fascism in the UK

• Shocking
• White working class men
• Towards a better understanding

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What defines fascism?

• 1) White interests are paramount
• 2) Essential and immoveable racial differences
  grounded upon phenotypical and cultural
  differences
• 3) Much effort is put into the definition of
  whiteness

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• 4) Jews are defined as not white, constructed as
  a race apart, stereotypically identified
• 5) Science is drawn upon to justify the supposed
  innate differences separating racial groups

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• 6) There is the perceived threat of genocide of
  the white race through sexual intermixing
• 7) Interracial sexuality is defined as the
  ultimate crime
• 8) Gender differences essentialised

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• 9) Backlash to the perceived unequal gains of
  blacks in a society imagined to have gone mad
  with political correctness
• 10) Movements attract people across class groups

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• In sum
• 11) Racial differences are commonsense and
  grounded in nature therefore ridiculous and
  pointless to change them