A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Moderators: Elvis, DrVolin, Jeff

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby jakell » Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:28 pm

Searcher08 » Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:51 pm wrote:
American Dream » Thu Jul 31, 2014 3:30 pm wrote:Jakell, you are being offered a free visit to the TORCH Antifascist Network’s First Annual Conference in Chicago, the weekend of September 13-14.

You don't want to go?


I'm sure the thought of attending NHD2 ("non-hierarchically-designed-and-delivered") interaction-spaces like

"How I CopyPasta'ed more than 200 articles from libcom and no-one noticed except Marcuse"

was hard to resist. :eeyaa

Typical that when a couple of people who live in different parts of the UK add something to the conversation, AD, you just engage in snark.


@jakell
One thing that has surprised me about UKIP is the degree of anti-Muslim and vociferously pro-Israel sentiment I have seen coming from some of the people involved with it. They would be in the same category as the typical US Fox news fan.
UKIP is a strange beast as Farage is very anti-EU and pretty pro-Putin - but also very pro-Israel.


I've become pretty inured to egregious views being expressed about nearly every possible group due to reading the unexpurgated views of old school BNPers for years now (the sort of stuff that would be snipped from their official site), so possibly the stuff you refer to may seem relatively mild to me.

UKIP has been existing on the fringes for years now, with the EU as an easy and unpopular target for Farage to rail at, now they're becoming more visible their rough and inconsistent edges will be too. I have to admit to not paying much notice to UKIP, next to the BNP et al they were a relatively dull sideshow.

You can have my place at that conference if you like, especially now that AD is hinting at free travel and board.
" Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism"
User avatar
jakell
 
Posts: 1821
Joined: Wed May 06, 2009 4:58 pm
Location: North England
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:35 pm

ImageImageImage
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby Searcher08 » Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:18 pm

[quote="American Dream » Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:35 pm"]ImageImage[img]http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/images/smilies/popcorn.

Your post quality in this thread is nothing if not consistent. Or perhaps I should say 'nothing AND consistent'.
:partyhat

ok, back to libcom TV
User avatar
Searcher08
 
Posts: 5887
Joined: Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:21 am
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Fri Aug 01, 2014 2:51 pm

http://boingboing.net/2014/08/01/uk-pol ... tists.html

UK politician: "occultists" infiltrated Independent Party

David Pescovitz at 11:04 am Fri, Aug 1, 2014

ImageIn Wells, England the UK Independent Party chairman Graham Livings resigned from his post claiming that the party has been "infiltrated by the Glastonbury occult... oddballs putting on these weekend retreats where they guarantee the angels will be present."


“These people say that they take angelic guidance and defer in all things to St Michael the Archangel – and at the same time we’re experiencing such vitriol and bile from them. I don’t have to put up with it, so I am resigning,” Livings said.


(Western Daily Press)
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:27 pm

http://class-struggle-anarchism.tumblr. ... -the-white

Image

Standing on Farage’s right there in the white waistcoat is UKIP candidate for east Sussex council, Mrs Anna-Marie Crampton.

Here are some of her opinions:

The Second World Wide War was engineered by the Zionist jews and financed by the banksters to make the general public all over the world to feel so guilty and outraged by the Holocaust that a treaty would be signed to create the State of Israel as we know it today.


uhm

The Rothschilds are Zionists..there is a difference between Jews and Zionists. These Psychopaths hide behind and use the Jews… It was thanks to them that 6 million Jews were murdered in the War (along with 26 million Russians!)


It’s like they have a little checklist - white supremacists, check… homophobes, check… misogynists, check… wait, have we had an anti-semite yet? Let’s put one up for election!

UKIP, the party that will take you to court for calling them fascists who also just happen to be holocaust deniers.
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:57 am

Palestine: Mr President, you are leading France astray

27 JUILLET 2014 | PAR EDWY PLENEL

From his alignment with the Israeli far-right to the banning of demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and the suggestion that this show of solidarity is in fact anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism, French President François Hollande has lost his way, writes Mediapart editor-in-chief Edwy Plenel. In this opinion article presented as an open letter to the head of state, he argues that Hollande has adopted a position of incoherence and hypocrisy that will bring him no political gain and which ignores the lessons of history.


Mr President, dear François Hollande, I could never have thought that you might one day figure in the history of French socialism as something of a new Guy Mollet. And, to be frank, I cannot get truly used to this idea, such was my belief that you were aware of the danger of a socialist relapse into national blindness and international alignment, this pretence of civilizations which believe themselves superior to the point of using this as an alibi to justify the injustices they commit.

This Mollet-like ghost that haunts your political family is one you know very well. That of a militant who was devout to his party – the SFIO – and a leader with undeniable democratic and social convictions who ends up by losing all credit in a political sense, and his soul in a moral sense. All because he failed to understand the new world that, before his eyes, was in the process of being born. This was during the 1950s, and the emergence of a Third World, the rising up of subjugated peoples who shook the yoke of colonizers and imperialists amid a time of liberation and national independence.

Guy Mollet and the political majority of the Left that supported him, faced the situation by denying reality. They held on to a bygone world, already lost, adding to the misery with their stubbornness, deepening unjustness with their blindness. In that manner, they argued that Algeria should remain French at all costs, to the point of sending the army into a dirty war, to the point of authorising the use of torture, to the point of attacking freedoms and silencing the opposition. And it was with this same colonial mentality that they engaged our country in a disastrous military adventure against a sovereign Egypt in Suez, alongside a then young state of Israel.

Mollet was neither an imbecile nor incompetent. He was simply blind to the world and towards others. Others who, already, took the form of Arabs and Muslims from a diversity of origins who invited themselves back to the table of History, laying claim to their pride and seeking their freedom. And who, in the same movement of dignity and fraternity, cannot admit that today the injustice meted out to the Jews by Europe, that crime against humanity in which they had no part, can be followed by an enduring injustice against their Palestinian brothers, by the denial of their right to live in freedom in a proper state with secure and recognised borders.

Concerning Mollet, you know very well what followed, a disaster for your political family and, beyond, for all of the Left. You know this so well in fact that you concluded, in your 2006 book Devoirs de vérité (Duties of Truth), that it was: “A fault that was dearly paid for: twenty-five years in opposition is no little matter!” You might have added that on top of that came the renaissance of the French far-right, which had been eclipsed since the fall of Nazism, and also the advent of the exceptional institutions of the Fifth Republic, those of the Ceasar-like personal power of the presidential office. Twenty-five years of penitence, you insist, because the SFIO, the ancestor of your Socialist Party of today, “lost its soul in the Algerian War [of Independence]”.

You were so very clear about this that you added: “We still have apologies to give to the Algerian people. And we must ensure that what was does not happen again […] We are never sure to be right, to choose the right direction, to choose the proper orientation. But we must, at every major moment, ask these simple questions: are we acting according to our values? Are we sure of not altering our principles? Are we staying true to what we are? These questions must be asked at every moment, on pain of otherwise forgetting the lesson.”

Well, I have come to ask you these questions because, alas, you are in the process of forgetting the lesson and, in your own turn, becoming blind to the world and others. I ask you them given the stupefying errors of judgement you have made in face of this umpteenth chapter of war provoked by the Israeli government’s stubborn refusal to recognise the Palestinian reality. I have counted at least seven, leading France into the spiral of a war of worlds, of civilizations and identities; a war without an end, except for that of death and hate, of desolation and injustice. Of inhumanity, in sum, that dark path upon which humanity ends up destroying itself.

Adding hypocrisy to incoherence

1. You have firstly made a staggering political mistake. Doing away with France’s traditionally balanced position towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, you aligned our country with the outrageously offensive position of the Israeli Right, with its refusal to compromise, and which governs a far-right explicitly racist, with no morals nor principles except for the stigmatization of the Palestinians and the hatred of Arabs.

Your position, as that expressed in your statement on July 9th, cites Hamas attacks as justification for the disproportionate Israeli riposte in which the civil population of Gaza would, yet again, pay the price. Your position, a knee-jerk and in large part improvised, ignores all the complexity of the situation, notably that of the infernal duo that are the Likud party and Hamas which both give themselves legitimacy amid the ruins of peace efforts.

Above all, your position is worrying for the future, in the context of an international situation that is increasingly uncertain. This green light given to a state whose military might is incomparable with that of its enemy is tantamount to giving retro-active legitimacy to the over-reaction of the United States after the 9/11 attacks, with its liberticidal Patriot Act and the invasion of Iraq. In short, your position is one that turns its back on that which France, under the presidency of Jacques Chirac, was able to build and affirm with the autonomy of its diplomacy in face of American blindness.

Since then, you have tried to moderate this neo-conservative alignment with statements calling for calm, for restraint by the Israeli military, and for the relief of Palestinian suffering. By doing so, you add hypocrisy to incoherence. Because it is a false compassion that is one based on a false symmetry of the belligerents. Israel and Palestine are not equals here, not only in terms of military force but also according to international law.

In violation of United Nations resolutions, Israel has maintained since 1967 a situation of occupation, of domination and colonization of territories conquered during the Six-Day War, and never been returned to the full sovereignty of a Palestinian state to come en devenir. It is this situation of prolonged injustice that in return provokes refusals, resistance and revolts, all the more so because the Palestinian authorities of the Fatah in the West Bank have been unable to bend Israeli intransigence - which, as a result, lends legitimacy to the military actions of Fatah’s rival Hamas since it imposed itself in Gaza.

Historically, the difference between progressive and conservative forces is that the former seek to reduce the injustice that causes disorder, while the latter are resolved to committing injustice to halt disorder. Unfortunately, Mr President, you have spontaneously chosen the latter camp, leading your own political family to become lost on the terrain of its adversaries.

2. You next blundered by knowingly confusing anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism. It would be akin to blinding oneself to deny that, in France, the Palestinian cause has its wayward anti-Semitic elements, just as the Israeli cause has its anti-Arab and anti-Muslim extremists. But to assimilate all of those demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine with a resurgence of anti-Semitism is to become a docile relay of Israeli state propaganda.

Zionism, the nationalist Jewish movement, attained its goal in 1948 with the agreement of the United Nations – including the former USSR – amid the shock of the Nazi genocide of European Jews. To accept the historical legitimacy of the state of Israel, as eventually did the Palestinian national movement under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, does not imply that the policies of this state are beyond criticism or contestation. To be anti-Zionist in this sense is to refuse a never-ending war that comes from the claim to an exclusively-Jewish state in the Middle East, not only closed to all other elements but also built with the expulsion of Palestinians from their land.

To confuse anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is to install a political prohibition that serves a situation of oppression. It is to use the genocide against the Jews, for which Europe was guilty, for the discrimination against the Palestinians, in which as a result we become complicit. It is also, furthermore, to imprison the Jews of France in a position of required support for a foreign state whatever its actions, along the same logic that required French communists to support the Soviet Union, their other homeland, whatever its crimes. Whereas, obviously, one can be Jewish and anti-Zionist, Jewish and resolutely part of a diaspora rather than being blindly nationalist, just as there are citizens of Israel – alas, a too-small minority – who are opposed to colonisation and who express solidarity with the Palestinians.

To brandish this confusion as did your prime minister during the commemoration ceremonies of the July 1942 roundup of Jews at the Vél’ d’Hiv’, which became a symbol of the collaboration of the French state in the genocide committed by the Nazis, is as undignified as it is ridiculous. It is as if to say that to protest against the state of Israel’s repeated violations of international law is to open the path to a crime against humanity. It is as if to demand that justice at last for the Palestinian people, so that they can live, work and circulate normally in peace and security, would be tantamount to calling again for a massacre.




Continues at: http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/interna ... nglet=full
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:24 am

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 38164.html

Ukip's Wells branch in disarray after the 'Glastonbury occult crowd' accused of taking over

Image
Wells candidate and local branch chairman stand down over concerns about party's reputation

ANDY MCSMITH Wednesday 30 July 2014


A couple who claim to be in regular contact with the Archangel Michael have denied that their conversations with angels are behind the row which has torn apart a local branch of Ukip.

Jake Baynes, who was to have been Ukip candidate in Wells in next year’s general election, and the local branch chairman, Graham Livings, have resigned, saying that relations within the local party deteriorated so badly that they cannot take it any more. Mr Livings, a 74-year-old former company director, blamed a “Glastonbury occult crowd” whom he accused of damaging the party’s reputation.

But Glen Tucker, whose wife Colleen runs the Angelic Guidance and Healing Centre, in Glastonbury, insisted that the couple’s private and professional lives were not a factor in the dispute within Ukip.

On their website, Colleen Tucker describes herself as an “Angelic Reiki Master Teacher, Shaman and Soul Midwife” and one of a group of practitioners who work alongside “Angels, Ascended Masters and Galactic Beings” on healing and expansion of consciousness. “About six years ago, Archangel Michael made himself known to me, and I’ve been working with him and the Angelic Realms since then,” she claims.

Mr Livings, a longstanding Ukip activist, told The Independent: “I have been at it for 15 years or more with Ukip and to see it implode down here is depressing. Jake had the ideal profile. Any political party would have been pleased to have a candidate like him. He won the selection to be candidate fair and square and from the beginning there was a campaign against him by a handful of people. The two most vociferous were the Glastonbury occult.

“I have had people say to me, prospective Ukip voters, who have said that in view of it being true about the Glastonbury occult, they will not be voting Ukip.”

Image
Colleen Tucker claims to have a working relationship with the Archangel Michael

Mr Baynes, a secondary school teacher who is now on holiday, added: “They say they get their divine inspirations from the Archangel Michael, and to be honest, I don’t think that has a part to play in politics. I’ve just had enough of all the infighting.”

But Glen Tucker vehemently disputed the allegation that an "occult crowd" even existed. “We have never involved anybody or anything to do with our private life in the political sphere,” he told The Independent.

“These two have concocted this fictitious organisation called the Glastonbury occult, which doesn’t exist. It’s amusing, because if you look at the word ‘occult’ it means ‘secret’. Well, it’s all out in the open. We have a good reputation. Why they have brought it up, I have no idea.”

In 2010, Mr Baynes defied Ukip’s national leadership over whether the party should run a general election candidate in Wells, where the incumbent Tory MP, David Heathcoat-Amery, who is strongly anti-EU, was under threat from the Lib Dems. Mr Baynes accused the then-Ukip leader, Lord Pearson, of wanting to protect Mr Heathcoat-Amery because they were both old boys of Eton, the same public school where David Cameron and Boris Johnson were educated. Mr Baynes ran against Mr Heathcoat-Amery, and took 1,711 votes. The Tories lost the seat to the Lib Dem Tessa Munt by 800 votes.
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Mon Sep 01, 2014 4:59 pm

https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/en ... ght-europe

Thesis on the swing to the right in Europe

On the occasion of an international antifascist conference in Berlin we would like to present a few brief points on the recent rise of fascism in Europe.


In every democratic nation there are fascist political parties. Sometimes, they don’t have a lot of impact for a long time, but they do exist nevertheless. Fascists are people who are politically organised on the common ground that they see their own nation sold out by their own government. Sold out, because that very government allegedly governed their people in a wrong way, meaning they would admit “the wrong” people and would govern “our own” too laxly, which would undermine motivation and decency. Wherever governments strengthen the dependency on other countries by making trade agreements or forming political alliances because they count on a positive outcome for their nation, it’s the fascists who smell a sellout of the homeland.

This standpoint of fascists is kept alive and even strengthened by democratic parties. Every democratic party finds it reasonable to be sceptical about „foreigners“. Even where some might aim for a liberalisation of immigration law or for making naturalisation easier, it would still be stressed that this process should definitely depend on successful “integration” of these foreigners. It is taken for granted that foreigners always lack real patriotism – the one natives know before they are out of diapers. Every democratic party finds a lack of morale in the people, no matter if the occasion is a debate over fiscal evasion or on benefit scroungers. Every democratic party stresses that it only acts for the national common good when it, for example, signs an international treaty. Stressing that also means to hint at the other side of the medal: in any international business one's own national interests are at risk of being undermined by other nation-states. This is a prime subject of debate in parliamentary democracy: each party blames the others to have failed with regard to furthering the national interest or to even have thrown back the whole country by misgovernment. All those standpoints exist in every democracy. Fascists seize and radicalise them.

The EU and the Eurozone are associations of states each of which wants to advance its own power by joining together. Germany, for example, wanted to expand its already strong power in the world. Other nations, especially those in the south of Europe, wanted to get away from their agrarian economies and turn them into real capitalist ones. Both calculations seemed to have worked – until 2007.

The financial and sovereign debt crisis thwarted all of their plans. The countries in the European South had to subject themselves to a national scrappage programme simply for continued access to credit in Euro and without any perspective for further development. Germany does not want to pay a lot for those nation-states struck hardest by the crisis as they do not contribute to the German project of becoming a world power within and through a successful Europe.

In the public sphere it is the democratic parties which, at first, cast doubt whether everything worked according to plan in the past – in particular when they say: “carry on” regardless of the crisis. In contrast, fascist parties radicalised this doubt to the certainty that the whole EU and the Eurozone are one big sellout of the national interest.

The political elites have arrived at the conclusion that central political strategies have failed so far. This is one foundation of fascist success.

Secondly, for fascists parties to be successful it needs the people. Most people have no idea what the point of the Euro and its financial markets has been and continues to be. For the population it is patriotically obvious that painful cuts are required in the interest of the success of the nation when they think it is plausible that their own restrictions help the nation to achieve the greatness promised by politicians. For the same reason some countries saw mass protests because people do not accept that structural adjustment programmes lead the nation to greatness – as in their view those are merely imposed on them from abroad.

When large parts of the population now find it plausible to vote for fascist parties then this is not because they realised that nationally organised capitalism only means trouble for the satisfaction of needs and desires. But what they consider an inalienable right is the success of the nation itself. If that is threatened then they – as loyal subjects – become demanding and put their trust in parties which promise to stand for ruthless moralistic terror and systematic tightening of the figurative belt – without any concessions to foreign powers.

Antifascist activists remain helpless if they attempt to work with bourgeois parties and if they ignore their “arguments” (e.g. “foreigners and the EU are useful for the nation”) in coalitions – or even support these arguments. This bourgeois “invitation” not to follow the fascists contains the whole breeding ground for exactly these fascists. Instead what is needed is critique of those who judge the world around them – in good and bad times – as to how s
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Sat Sep 06, 2014 1:03 pm

https://libcom.org/library/what-nationalism

What is nationalism?

Image

Short description from an anarchist perspective of nationalism and its relation to statism and authoritarianism.

I. Origin of the nationalist doctrine.

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein

Nationalism is a doctrine which appeared as a reaction against anarchist ideas in the nineteenth-century, along with statism. Both statism and nationalism have formed in time the core of authoritarian political orientations: Bolshevism, fascism, national socialism. These have led to the largest known catastrophes in human history.

The arguments of nationalist ideology represent the philosophical reflections inspired by German idealists and romantics. Hegel argued that the state is more superior than the individual and it is the highest form of consciousness. Such a consideration leads automatically to the condemnation of freedom, the denial of civil rights and the arbitrary and unjust rulings over peoples lives. Hegel's speculative philosophy inspired a century later, Nazi ideology.

II. Similarities between Bolshevism and fascism or between national-communism and National Socialism.

"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism" - Benito Mussolini

Therefore, nationalism can be identified as both common in fascist ideology and in the forms communism took over the twentieth century. Socialism in its roots was internationalist, but the statist form it took was bound towards nationalism and authoritarianism: thus the name of national-communism.

Both fascism and Bolshevism (or national-communism) constitute the opposite authoritarian direction of the democratic and libertarian movements. The revolutions realized under the fascists, Nazis or Bolsheviks inherently contain coercion, lack of pluralism, strengthening state authority and intolerance.

III. The inherent implications of nationalism.

"Nationalism is our form of incest, it is our idolatry, our insanity" - Erich Fromm

Strengthening state authority would be a first consequence. Nationalists base their arguments about strengthening state authority on the identification of enemies from within (Jews, homosexuals, Roma, national minorities, etc.) Against these enemies nationalists want to strengthen the means of state coercion, ranging (as we find in the history of the twentieth century) even towards genocide. The enemy from within is never the same with the real oppressor, his identification diverts the citizens attention from the real oppressor (the state, ruling class,etc).

Another consequence would be the limitation of individual freedom. Since the masses can revolt against the injustice and abuse of the state, the nationalists will seek to have control over them. How will this control be exercised? Through the abolition of trade unions or other forms of free association, by strict control of education, using media and literary/artistic creations as means of propaganda to support the nationalist regime and by a mass culture characterized by a wooden language. Moreover - the ruling class of such a regime will seek to ensure not only that citizens are exposed but will maintain a state of terror in society, aimed to discourage any form of protest. In this regard the known criminal activity of the state police services, such as the German Gestapo, Soviet Cheka or the Iron Guard imposed terror in Romania in the period in which they held power. Thus, all authoritarian regimes in history have used an almost total restriction of rights and civil liberties, using the official police and the paramilitary groups, or bullies who were in the service of the party (the German SA, the legionary police in Romania). Identifying an external enemy is also a characteristic of nationalism. Instead of proper coexistence, cooperation and keeping the peace, the nationalists identify, in general among the neighboring countries, an enemy. Antipathies towards neighbors are cultivated, based on the criterion of an alleged superiority towards them. In this way national history is mystified to accommodate their chauvinistic arguments.

IV. Characteristics of fascist nationalism.

"Nationalism...is like cheap alcohol. First you get drunk, and then it blinds, then it kills you " - Dan Fried

The Romanian fascists (the Legionnaires or the neo-Legionnaires of the New Right) used or are using religion as a way of manipulating the masses.

Other features of fascism (not only Romanian) are:

- militarized organization. It aims to not allow free individual development but to equalize both those who serve in the fascist organization and the rest of the citizens;

- harsh discourses against minorities (Jews, Romani, Hungarians, homosexuals,etc.)

- patriotism. It is promoted to induce a sense of duty towards the state or the fascist organization and thus resulting in the willingness to commit atrocities. The idea of patriotism is placed above their own consciousness, so under the pretext of love of country, many end up committing heinous acts that would otherwise not be able to commit;

- restricting rights and civil liberties. This is necessary to overcome all opposition, because a nationalist regime is opposed to one in which pluralism and the divergence of ideas are accepted and tolerated;

- elitism. Restriction of power in the hands of a group seen as most competent to make decisions. A direct consequence of elitism is discrimination and moral corruption, and lack of democratic participation and public debate.

V. The relationship between people and education in terms of nationalism.

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons" - Bertrand Russell

In terms of relationships between people and education, the nationalists share a traditionalist vision. Initiatives such as the emancipation of women are not seen with good eyes by nationalists, even mistaking them with immorality. The woman in a society subjected to a nationalist regime will always be limited to the traditional role.

Throughout history, the nationalists have encouraged denouncement and animosity between people in order to form an amorphous mass of them. This is common to fascism and Bolshevism.

Education, in the nationalist vision should serve - not individual and personal development and the obtaining of autonomy but its indoctrination according to the rigid dogma of nationalism. Patriotism is encouraged to divert attention from real issues, promoting the cult of heroes in order to inoculate people with a false idea of national superiority.


http://socialistlibertarian.blogspot.ro/
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby coffin_dodger » Sat Sep 06, 2014 2:44 pm

Would it be fair to call American Exceptionalism a form of Nationalism, AD?
User avatar
coffin_dodger
 
Posts: 2216
Joined: Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:05 am
Location: UK
Blog: View Blog (14)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Sat Sep 06, 2014 3:08 pm

coffin_dodger » Sat Sep 06, 2014 1:44 pm wrote:Would it be fair to call American Exceptionalism a form of Nationalism, AD?


I would say the U.S. has big problems with Nationalism and that the ideas and myths of American Exceptionalism are definitely connected.
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Mon Sep 08, 2014 9:47 pm

http://louisproyect.org/2014/09/08/swedish-nazis/

Swedish Nazis

Image


From “Stieg Larsson: the Real Story of the Man Who Played With Fire” by Jan-Erik Petterson

One feature of the extreme Right in Sweden is that, despite the weakness of its popular support, it is remarkably well represented among the elite and ruling classes: among scientists, academics and high-ranking military officers. It was not just theorists like Kjellen and Molin who were in the vanguard in formulating ideas which then became prevalent in the Third Reich. Herman Lundborg, the world’s first professor of eugenics, was part of the trend as early as 1910, and founded the Swedish Society for Racial Hygiene. A decade later he managed to get more or less the entire Establishment behind him when he set up a Swedish racial research institute.

The National Eugenics Institute opened in 1921, with Lundborg at its head, and became well known for its large-scale field-research projects on the Swedish people. He and his colleagues travelled all over the country, photographing, measuring and making notes. The subjects of this research, seeing no harm in it, were allocated to racial groups on the basis of their physical constitution, skin colour, hair colour, shape of cranium, cranial circumference and so on. And there were few who doubted its scientific validity. On the strength of his findings, Lundborg pursued a vigorous campaign for an active population policy, including compulsory sterilization of undesirables, such as Lapps, Gypsies and vagrants. If this were not implemented, the fusion of the races would escalate and culture would fall into decline: `Sexual urges would intensify, immorality, hedonism, vice and crime break out and leave their mark on society. Sooner or later it would lead to discord, dissent, riot and revolution’ (according to an article in Svensk Tidskrift in 1921).

One reason for the rapid and widespread support for Lundborg’s theories was that there had been a deep-seated belief since the mid-nineteenth century that the Germanic peoples of northern Europe were related and that Sweden was their original home. So when the Nazis stepped forward and began talking of restoring the honour of the German nation and defending the Nordic race, many Swedes were willing to listen. And these were not so much Swedish Nazi party members as influential individuals in politics, the civil service, the business world, the military, the police, even the royal family. Some of the greatest admirers of Germany before and during the Second World War were to be found in the Swedish military. When Hitler celebrated his fiftieth birthday in the spring of 1939, he was congratulated by a Swedish delegation of high-ranking officers led by the future supreme commander Olof Thornell. They were accompanied by the openly Nazi Carl Ernfrid Carlberg and Henri de Champs as representatives of the Manhem Society (a patriotic Scandinavian association named after Olaus Rudbeck’s seventeenth-century book of Gothicist speculations) and the Swedish-German Association, who also presented Hitler with a gift, a statuette of Charles XII, which he is said to have much appreciated.

In the initial phase of the war the Swedish coalition government adopted a far-reaching policy of acceding to German demands, with increased exports of iron ore, the transit of troops by rail and sea, and censorship of any Swedish newspapers which criticized Germany.

Things did not go so well, however, for the official Nazi parties. Generals and colonels would never dream of subordinating themselves to Warrant Officer Lindholm, not even under a German occupation. And the nation it was the intention to unite was not very interested in the constant bickering among the Nazi parties themselves. But there was a common pool of historical ideas and attitudes from which groups and individuals drew their inspiration and which made some hold fast to their fundamental credo — aggressive nationalism, racism, the belief that elites should rule — while other friends of Germany took down their portraits of Hitler and enrolled for correspondence courses in English.
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby American Dream » Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:51 am

http://boingboing.net/2014/10/20/far-ri ... es-ex.html

Far-right UK party releases excruciating, racist comedy song
Rob Beschizza at 6:33 am Mon, Oct 20, 2014



Mike Read, a former BBC disk jockey, has recorded "UKIP Calypso", a song named for the British anti-immigrant party and a style of music stereotypically associated with the mid-century immigrants of his generation. Yes, complete with terrible "Jamaican" accent!

Image


If nothing else, it's a reminder of the talentless mediocrity of 20th century Britain's light entertainment monoculture; the lyrics, as transcribed by Us vs Th3m, are posted below.

Note the cover of the song proves that UKIP leader Nigel Farage is approximately 3 feet tall.

Image

Tax payers money where does it go?
Not even George Osborne knows
When we’re in power and we engage
There will be no tax on minimum wage

Our leaders committed a cardinal sin
Open the borders let them all come in
Illegal immigrants in every town
Stand up and be counted Blair and Brown

Chorus:
Oh yes when we take charge
And the new Prime Minister is Farage
We can trade with the world again
When Nigel is at number 10

The British People have been let down
That’s why UKIP is making ground
From Crewe to Cleethorpes to Outer Hendon
They don’t believe Cameron’s referendum

Coalition could be a fact
With any party we could make a pact
Stop telling lies about us too
And we’ll stop telling the truth about you

[Chorus]
Though our pension scheme is in a mess
We need money for the NHS
With Jean-Claude Juncker we’re giving away
55 million every day

Oh what a farce, he won the vote
This is my favourite Juncker quote
He looked the reporters straight in the eyes
“When things get serious it’s time to lie”

[Chorus]

The EU live in wonderland
Tried to ban bent bananas and British jam
We don’t want jam the EU way
Jam yesterday, tomorrow and never today

The daily polls suggest somehow
UKIP are the third party now
In the Euro elections we were so immersed
We weren’t the third party, we were the first

[Chorus]

When the government’s sitting on the fence UKIP policies make more sense Get out of Europe, is our target Common wealth and not common market

Other parties please take note
UKIP is not a protest vote
So mark your cross and by word of mouth
Tell them what to do in Thanet South

[chorus]

With the EU we must be on our mettle
They want to change our lawnmowers and our kettles
Our hairdryers, smartphones and vacuum cleaners
But UKIP is wise to their misdemeanours

Farage he likes his fags and beer
But there’s one thing I want to get clear
Now I like Nigel he’s a friend of mine
He appears on Dimbleby on Question Time

[chorus]

The other parties will count the costings
In Eastleigh, Thurrock and Bow they’re lost in
Labour and Tories shaking in their boots
When UKIP kick them up the grassroots

Meanwhile down on Clacton-on-Sea
UKIP are making history
Douglas Carswell is quite adamant
Will be the first MP in parliament

[chorus]
"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."
-Malcolm X
American Dream
 
Posts: 19946
Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 4:56 pm
Location: Planet Earth
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby coffin_dodger » Mon Oct 20, 2014 4:48 pm

From above:
Far-right UK party releases excruciating, racist comedy song


This is maybe a joke piece?

Either that, or the author has severely lost sight of what the right-wing is/are. I'm starting to wonder if anything non-mainstream is to be tagged as fascist, anti-this or anti-that by the doyens of the anti-fas movement.

I'd like to make it clear that I consider all current visible UK political parties to be the same entity - i.e. full of politicians (definition: those that can lie in extremis whilst keeping a demeanor of righteousness).

But, to brand the UKIP as 'far-right' is silly. It's taking political correctness almost to it's limit. But then maybe that's the ultimate end game of political correctness - to ban anything other than what society (represented, of course, by it's rulers) deems to be correct in word and thought.

Whilst I readily acknowledge that the UK is a bad apple amongst many on the world stage, I wish you'd stop posting shit on this board about my fellow countrypeople, of which you very clearly know fuck all about.
User avatar
coffin_dodger
 
Posts: 2216
Joined: Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:05 am
Location: UK
Blog: View Blog (14)

Re: A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Nation-State

Postby Wombaticus Rex » Mon Oct 20, 2014 5:08 pm

coffin_dodger » Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:48 pm wrote: I wish you'd stop posting shit on this board about my fellow countrypeople, of which you very clearly know fuck all about.


If we were to limit the discourse to informed contributions only, we would be effectively crippling the forum.

That policy cannot and will not be instituted on my watch. Sorry.
User avatar
Wombaticus Rex
 
Posts: 10896
Joined: Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:33 pm
Location: Vermontistan
Blog: View Blog (0)

PreviousNext

Return to Data & Research Compilations

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 10 guests