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Fascism in the Contemporary US
Kevin Reuning
October 24, 2017
Kevin Reuning Fascism in the Contemporary US
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Contemporary Fascism in the US
◦ Three Generations of Fascist Organizations
◦ The Alt-Right and Fascisim
◦ What are they doing?
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Fascist Groups
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Fascist Groups
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Fascist Groups
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Fascist Groups
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Fascist Groups
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Fascist Groups
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Fascist Groups
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Fascist Groups
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Fascist Groups
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Three Generations of Fascist Organizations
Old Guard: Traditional organizations but often built around singleindividuals.
◦ National Alliance (1970)
◦ National Socialist Movement (1994ish)
◦ The League of the South (1994)
◦ American Freedom Party (2009)
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First Wave of Internet Organizations
Less of organizations and more of platforms for connecting.
◦ StormFront (1995)
◦ Daily Stormer (2013)
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New Wave
Mixture of organizations and platorms, still driven by individualidentities.
◦ Richard Spencer’s Alt-Right (2017)
◦ Traditionalist Worker Party (2015)
◦ Identity Evropa (2016)
◦ Anti-Communist Action (2017?)
◦ Vanguard America/Patriot Front (2014?/2017)
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How big are they?
Hatreon Social Media
Individual or Group Amount Donors Facebook Twitter
Daily Stormer $7,843 214 SuspendedRichard Spencer $531 48 15,996 77,302StormFront $654 13Identity Evropa 21,959Trad Worker Party 2,877
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Fascists Organizations
◦ Develop around a single leader, tend to fall apart when theleader vanishes.
◦ Media platforms versus organizations.
◦ Not very rigid boundaries between organizations (creation ofmany federations).
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How Fascist is the Alt-Right?
The alt-right is both an organization and an umbrella term for thenew far right.
From: https://itsgoingdown.org/
types-right-wing-groups-attending-unite-right-rally/
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How Fascist is the Alt-Right?
◦ Some take a traditional fascist positions.
◦ Some take other far-right positions
◦ Some are social or cultural organizations and less explicitlyideological.
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Traditionalist Worker Party
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Traditionalist Worker Party
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Not all of the Alt-Right is Fascist
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The Proud Boys
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The Proud Boys
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Overlap
◦ Strong support for traditional genderroles.
◦ Deeply contemptuous of current politicalelites (Trump excluded).
◦ Use of violence against left wingprotesters.
◦ Always online.
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What are they doing?
Online presence:
◦ Recent history connected to internet culture spawned by4chan and reddit.
◦ Podcasts and blogs: The Right Stuff, the War Room, andDaily Stormer
Change in the last year as more of this comes off the internet andinto real-life.
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Rallies
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College Postering and Recruiting
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Rebranding
Race Realist or Identitarian‘White Genocide’
Support for ‘diversity’
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Thank You
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