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Einde O'Callaghan:
> for providing extra information. However I still think > that this means a lurch to the nationalist right even if > the party as such can't be described as far right - the > very fact that it's a racist party and has a fascist wing > makes it very suspect to me.
Forgot to mention in the previous mail that I wouldn't call the TF far right wing "fascist". "Modern racists" (as opposed to old skool race hierachy racists) would be more accurate in my opinion. Depends of course on your definition of fascism whether that is a good label as well, but personally I'm inclined to see fascism more in "classical" terms, i.e. hostility towards bourgeois democratic institutions because some sector of society (most often the working class) that is seen to be splitting "the people" and/or threatening "the common good" (most often the accumulation of capital) has gained too much influence through those institutions.
The TF right-wingers have no problem with bourgeois democracy, as in these election it has served their purpose far better than that of the left; the SDP got its worst result since the second world war (19,1%) and the Left Alliance vote fell almost a percentage point too (to 8,1%).
Whether the TF far righters can *develop* into fascism or not... well that's of course possible, but then again that's possible for *any* bourgeois party that accepts that in order to keep things going you have to make sure that capital accumulation can continue.
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