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Important article, thanks Don't miss the part at the very end about left Islamophobia (shades of France) PS: I could totally see UNAC and/or some of its components sucking up to the advocates of a "multipolar" world described in this article. On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Elsässer began publishing books and articles arguing for the constitution > of a “Berlin-Paris-Moscow axis” in opposition to Washington. After a series > of explicitly nationalist interventions got him booted, successively, from > pretty much every major left-wing publication of note, Elsässer started > Compact, thus creating a coherent ideological center for a new type of > far-right politics: resolutely German nationalist, explicitly adopting > traditional far-right tropes against “finance capital,” positing the > formation of a “Eurasian” power axis as a counterpole to the United States, > and resolutely anti-immigrant in terms of domestic policy while supporting > “anti-imperialist” countries such as Iran or Syria abroad. > > This unique mixture has found an enthusiastic audience in the new far > right, and elements of the ideology are deeply rooted in the middle of > German society itself, to which the prominent displays of Compact in train > station newspaper shops are testament. > > full: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/02/germany-far-right-pegida/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com