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Spencer, Kristie A.; Rogers, Mark

doi:10.1044/leader.ftr4.20012015.50

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“…Spencer also contributed the lead piece (‘Foreword’) called ‘What is the American Right?’ in Paul Gottfried’s The Great Purge: The Deformation of the Conservative Movement (Spencer, 2015). In this work, he suggests that the right in the US is defined by five characteristics: free-market capitalism, generic Christianity, staunch support for the US military, vociferous support for the state of Israel, and a values-based conception of American identity, which is universal rather than ethnic-based (Spencer, 2015: x–xi).…”

Section: Spencer’s Thought and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Alt-Right’s continuation of the ‘cultural war’ in Euro-American societies

Bar‐On

2021

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In this paper, I argue that the Alt-Right needs to be taken seriously by the liberal establishment, the general public, and leftist cultural elites for five main reasons: 1) its ‘right-wing Gramscianism’ borrows from the French New Right ( Nouvelle Droite – ND) and the French and pan-European Identitarian movement. This means that it is engaged in the continuation of a larger Euro-American metapolitical struggle to change hearts and minds on issues related to white nationalism, anti-Semitism, and racialism; 2) it is indebted to the metapolitical evolution of sectors of the violent neo-Nazi and earlier white nationalist movements in the USA; 3) this metapolitical orientation uses the mass media, the internet, and social media in general to reach and influence the masses of Americans; 4) the ‘cultural war’ means that the Alt-Right’s spokesman Richard Spencer, French ND leader Alain de Benoist, and other intellectuals see themselves as a type of Leninist vanguard on the radical right, which borrows from left-wing authors such as Antonio Gramsci and their positions in order to win the metapolitical struggle against ‘dominant’ liberal and left-wing political and cultural elites; and 5) this ‘cultural war’ is intellectually and philosophically sophisticated because it understands the crucial role of culture in destabilizing liberal society and makes use of important philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, Julius Evola and others in order to give credence to its revolutionary, racialist, and anti-liberal ideals.

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Section: Spencer’s Thought and Workmentioning

confidence: 99%