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(88 posts)Political Research Associates:
By Spencer Sunshine, on March 5, 2015
"Crypto-fascists and pro-White separatists are entering and recruiting from progressive circles. This essay offers some guidelines for identifying and dealing with this growing problem.
For a printable brochure version, see bottom.
In the not-so-distant past, one had little problem identifying a White separatist. Generally, they came in two styles: white hoods and burning crosses, or oxblood Doc Martens and swastika tattoos. Both were usually shouting vulgar epithets about African-Americans, Jews, and LGBTQ folks. And their relationship with the Left was usually in the form of breaking either bookstore windows or activists bonesif not outright murder.1 Barring them from progressive spaces was an act of physical self-preservationnot a show of political principles in drawing a line against ideological racism and fascism.
Today, White separatists dont always come in such easily identifiable forms, either in their dress or politics. A part of the White separatist and related Far Right movement has taken some unusual turns.2 Some fascists seek alliances with ultranationalist people of colora few of whom, in turn, consider themselves fascists. New types of groups embrace White separatism under a larger banner of decentralization. For many decades, the Far Right has disguised or rebranded its politics by establishing front groups, deploying code words, or using other attempts to fly under the radar.3 As the years pass by, some of these projects have taken on lives of their own as these forms have been adopted by those with different agendas. Simultaneously, there is a revival of fascist influence within countercultural music scenes. And intertwined with these changes is a renewed attempt on the part of some White separatists to participate in, or cross-recruit from, progressive circles.
This essay was written after a multi-year collaboration with a number of anti-fascist activists; we have struggled to understand this new phenomenon and craft ways to deal with it. I will attempt to: explain why Far Right actors should not be allowed to participate in progressive circles, suggest criteria regarding where the line should be drawn in defining which politics are problematic enough to take action against, and offer suggestions on how to communicate with and encourage individuals who may want to leave those movements.
The Impact of the Far Rights Presence on Progressive Circles
It can be tempting for progressive activists to ignore the presence of Far Right political and cultural actors in progressive spaces, particularly if they are not actively engaged in explicitly hateful and/or openly political organizing. This argument is heard almost every time a call for exclusion is made. Additionally, some people may ask why it is not adequate for organizations to simply declare that they are opposed to racism and fascism. Yet these are mistaken approaches; they underestimate the effect of Far Right groups and their ideologies, misunderstand how these groups often portray themselves, and dont acknowledge that ideologies are propagandized and spread by real people."
- See more at: http://www.politicalresearch.org/2015/03/05/drawing-lines-against-racism-and-fascism/#sthash.ZTxLPqPG.dpuf
We might also take a closer look at that Ron Paul and Ralph Nader "Progressive - Libertarian Alliance" - so-called "progressives" rubbing shoulders with white supremacists:
Yeah, Libertarian Ron Paul is a a white supremacist: "Ron Paul's Neo-Confederate "South Was Right" Civil War Speech With Confederate Flag":
Could it get worse? It could: http://www.dialoginternational.com/dialog_international/2011/12/ron-paul-and-the-neo-fascists.html
Nader on Neo-Confederate Tom Woods' show:
Tom Woods, Libertarian white nationalist: http://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/guest-blogger-thomas-woods-southern-comfort
Also see PRA.org on Ron Paul and Tom Woods: "Behind the recent surge of nullification bills in state legislatures there is an ongoing battle for the soul of the GOPand the future of the union itself. The nullification movements ideology is rooted in reverence for states rights and a theocratic and neo-Confederate interpretation of U.S. history. And Ron Paul, who is often portrayed as a libertarian, is the engine behind the movement."
- See more at: http://www.politicalresearch.org/2013/11/22/nullification-neo-confederates-and-the-revenge-of-the-old-right/#sthash.e7FdKZ2a.dpuf
By the way, this is not a progressive, it's a right-wing Libertarian con artist:
Glenn Greenwald, Unclaimed Territory:
"Friday, November 04, 2005
The reality of Latin American reaction to Bush
George Bush is here in Latin America this week, visiting Brazil and Argentina, and the standard reports of the American media are trying to depict a handful of isolated, juvenile socialist-organized "demonstrations" as some sort of sweeping, popular mass protest against Bushs visit, thereby suggesting, yet again, that the Administrations policies are flawed because people in other countries dislike Bush. As usual, the truth is vastly different than what the U.S. media is reporting (see UPDATE below) .
It is true that in this region (as is true for the U.S.), there remains a small, fervent band of left-wing fanatics with crazed enthusiasm for the worn-out, socialist/collectivist policies which have condemned millions upon millions of people throughout Latin America to poverty unimaginable to even the poorest Americans. These putative "mass demonstrations" in Argentina and Brazil are, in reality, nothing more than a few isolated spray-painting incidents of trite pacifist slogans in Brasilia, and a Cindy Sheehan-like "rally" of hard-core Socialists in Argentina led by an obese, Castro-idolozing, retired soccer player who found time away from his decade-old cocaine addiction to show up wearing an oh-so-clever t-shirt showing Bush's name spelled with a swastika."
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2005/11/reality-of-latin-american-reaction-to.html
He's STILL touring college campuses in the company of Ron Paul and Koch-funded white supremacist "constitutionalists" - The Libertarian "Liberty Tour":