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Anti-capitalism in the name of ethno-nationalism: ideological shifts on the German extreme right 

Author: Bernd Sommer (Show Biography)
DOI: 10.1080/00313220802204046
Publication Frequency: 5 issues per year
Published in: journal Patterns of Prejudice, Volume 42, Issue 3 July 2008 , pages 305 - 316
Subjects: Nationalism; Racism;
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Abstract

Sommer examines the (re-)emergence of anti-capitalist and anti-globalization themes within the ideology and discourses of the German extreme right. He argues that it would be short-sighted to interpret this development simply as another opportunistic attempt by the extreme right to incorporate Zeitgeist issues into its political agenda in order to appeal to a broader spectrum of supporters. An analysis of the latest campaigns of the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD)—the most successful extreme-right party in recent years—as well as the activities of groups that exist within the larger German extreme-right milieu, the so-called freie Kameradschaften, reveals that the taking up of social questions as well as anti-capitalist and anti-globalization themes marks a deeper shift within the political agenda of the extreme right in Germany. However, the analysis shows that racist and antisemitic issues do not disappear with this shift, but are linked with and incorporated into anti-capitalist and anti-globalization discourses.
Keywords: anti-capitalism; anti-globalization; antisemitism; ethnic nationalism; Germany; groupuscular right; Holocaust denial; Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands; neo-Nazism; NPD; right-wing extremism
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