Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (61 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Working Papers. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology no. 210
Keywords:
Deutschland Anthropologie, politische
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Rechtsradikalismus
;
Hass
Description / Table of Contents:
In the past, far-right aggression predominantly focused on national settings and street terror against minorities; today, however, it is increasingly embedded in global networks and acts within a strategic framework aimed at revolution, targeting the liberal order as such. Ideologically combining antisemitism, racism, and anti-feminism/anti-LGBTQI, adherents of this movement see modern societies as degenerate and weak, with the only solution being a violent collapse that they attempt to accelerate with their actions. The terrorist who attacked the synagogue and a kebab shop in Halle, Germany, in October 2019 clearly identified with this transnational community and situated his act as a continuation of a series of attacks inspired by white supremacy in the past decade. The common term `lone wolf` for these kinds of terrorists is in that sense a misnomer, as they are embedded in digital `wolf packs`.Although this movement is highly decentralized and heterogeneous, there are interactive processes that connect and shape the online milieu of extremists into more than the sum of its parts, forming a structure which facilitates a certain degree of cohesion, strategic agency, and learning. This paper uses the model of collective learning outside formal organizations to analyze how the revolutionary accelerationist right as a community of practice engages in generating collective identities and knowledge that are used in the service of their acts of death and destruction. (Abstract)
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 50-61
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