Reply #3: There is very little organic extreme right-wing theory... [View All]

[anaxarchos]

Think about it. Most people can name a dozen left-wing theoreticians. It's hard to name one enduring right-winger.

Most such right-wing "theory" is born in opposition to the left-wing in general and socialism in particular.. and borrows heavily from both. Fascism in particular accepts the theory of "class struggle" but seeks to reconcile it or at least channel it through dictatorial corporatism (it used to be called "Bonapartism") at home and colonialism abroad. Thus "national socialism" - Nazis.

One key part of the expropriation of theory is the idea that socialist technique can be divorced from socialist principles. This was an important idea of the Freikorps in Germany who preceded Hitler. It was explicit with the Italian Fascists. Mussolini, who started out a socialist, once remarked that he could never stand "the masses" or any of the socialist ideals that sought to promote them but was always enthralled by the "scientific principles of organization" that were developed by Italian socialism.

If Republican nut-jobs are talking about "admiring Lenin", it does not mean that they are "closet Reds". Quite the opposite, it means there is "a whiff" of openly Fascist theory in the air