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Far right anti-colonialism?

Drizzly Mary

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It goes without saying that the maintenance and/or expansion/acquisition of colonies are one of the policies of fascist movements. Italy's invasion of Ethiopia sank Fascism's appeal among the colonized peoples and only Japan which are arguably not as codified as Germany and Italy put out "Asia for Asians" propaganda, although in practice it was merely a Japanese empire. Arguably several post-colonial regimes had some facets of fascism(e.g. the Ba'ath Party or Soeharto's New Order), but historical fascism was pro-colonial.

So, how to achieve a far-right ideology in Europe that supports the struggles of native nationalisms against the colonial powers?
 
The Third Position is really keen on Third World national liberation movements - a development which can be broadly explained by three motives:
1) "Nobody's listening to us anymore now the world is in a cold war between the First and Second Worlds, we need a phresh new hook."
2) "America, France and Britain fucked us in the War, let's make things difficult for them."
3) "Maybe people will stop calling us racists if we loudly proclaim that some of our best friends are Louis Farrakhan."

Support for these ideas was densest among the young people who had joined up to fight for the Italian Social Republic upon reading the Verona Manifesto, which appropriated left-wing/radical rhetoric in an attempt to breathe new life into the doomed Fascist project in Italy. In the immediate post-war situation, anti-Americans held sway in the Italian Social Movement until Almirante was pushed out by the Generic Reactionaries (when he returned to the leadership, he didn't rock the boat against the Southern Establishment, so his return can't be said to be a victory for this faction). After the Almirante drama, the radicals were largely limited to controlling the MSI in the urban North, while the really hardcore ones, such as Pino Rauti, formed terrorist groups which published extremely Keen periodicals when they weren't fighting Communists in the streets.

Rauti later returned to the MSI and was a major internal advocate of anti-colonialism, eventually rising to the leadership in the midst of a period of turmoil. Despite his lifelong anti-colonial rhetoric, his brief leadership was utterly discredited when he decided to support the Americans (and their oil extraction interests) in the first Gulf War - he was ill when war was declared and his Deputy forced his hand by making a public statement of support for it.

The end of the Cold War, the healing of WWII bitterness, and the electoral success of the outwardly racist Le Pen in France meant that the three motives above were no longer as pressing as they once were, so the Third Position has now declined from its already low peak.

Here's a quote from Tassani in Italian Politics 1990 which briefly describes the Rautian position:

The fundamental contradiction in world politics, Rauti declared, was no longer East-West but North-South. In this Third World-based anti-capitalist framework, Rauti argued that a new alliance must be built between equals and non-equals against genocide through starvation in the Third World, especially aimed at the work of Western multinationals in the form of the five 'giant grain companies'. The Westernisation of the Third World carried out by the multinationals had imposed on the developing countries a catastrophic model of development. The message was that, in effect, "to be on the right wing is a very grave error". The conclusion drawn was that the MSI-DN "must have nothing to do with the right".

So basically, there was a wing of anti-colonialism in the post-war far-right, but you'd need some fairly hefty PoDs to make it dominant even in Italy, where it had the most support. The spiciest ones are, perhaps, Almirante winning the factional civil war somehow or Rauti not falling ill. Outside of Italy, the tendency also existed, but the far-right was much less institutional (Italy didn't have anywhere near the same level of denazification that Germany did, and the Allied powers defined themselves by their anti-fascism in the post-war period) and it would be a bit silly to prognosticate on Nick Griffin coming to power in the 80s, when he was a full-on Third Positionist and a shameless fan of Colonel Gaddafi.
 
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There's always been a streak of anti-imperialism/anti-colonialism (or more broadly, anti-interventionism) in fascism, in the same way there's always been a streak of welfarism. And occasionally you get fascists you genuinely believe in this stuff. But 99% of the time it's part of a cynical ploy to win over the masses. They don't intend on actually delivering on these promises, and never could even if they wanted to. Because the powers that prop up fascist governments have no interest in decolonizing or investing in social welfare.
 
I suppose one alternative might be that that the far-right incorporates post-colonialist language into broader anti-communist / anti-globalisation rhetoric. However, it would need to happen in countries that don't have a pre-existing history of colonialism, because in those places, the far-right is always pining for the empires their countries used to have.
 
I suppose one alternative might be that that the far-right incorporates post-colonialist language into broader anti-communist / anti-globalisation rhetoric. However, it would need to happen in countries that don't have a pre-existing history of colonialism, because in those places, the far-right is always pining for the empires their countries used to have.

Ireland?
 
I think there's a possibility here in the event of a worse Mau-Mau incident or something similar dragging into a lengthy war.

They key is to develop a viewpoint in the right which is, in essence, 'why are our boys going out to die for the sake of them.' and taking that into a 'Africa for the Africans. Britain for the British and don't let them come over here and try and drag us down to their level.'

Perhaps Malaya goes the way of Vietnam at the same time as the historic upsurge in racist rhetoric with the Windrush coming over?
 

It is strange to think of Ireland even having a far-right because the "mainstream" - as embodied by (the one, the only, the worst) Eamon De Valera - tended to be so conservative culturally and socially already (while pursuing this more socialistic approach to the role of the state, of course).

I know there is a "far-right" in Ireland today, though, which has emerged in relation to religious/social/cultural changes.
 
I suppose one alternative might be that that the far-right incorporates post-colonialist language into broader anti-communist / anti-globalisation rhetoric. However, it would need to happen in countries that don't have a pre-existing history of colonialism, because in those places, the far-right is always pining for the empires their countries used to have.

Yeah, maybe Germany who never had colonies but still lose a WWI equivalent?
 
TTL's German fascists could kickstart "The Great Replacement" conspiracy theory several decades ahead.
 
Yeah, maybe Germany who never had colonies but still lose a WWI equivalent?

Or possibly if we have a slightly later PoD someone like Poland or Hungary? I don't know enough about inter-war central and eastern europe but neither had colonies and both had some fairly far right leanings in the period as I understand it (especially Hungary which would literally join the Axis later).
 
It is strange to think of Ireland even having a far-right because the "mainstream" - as embodied by (the one, the only, the worst) Eamon De Valera - tended to be so conservative culturally and socially already (while pursuing this more socialistic approach to the role of the state, of course).

I know there is a "far-right" in Ireland today, though, which has emerged in relation to religious/social/cultural changes.
Wasn't FF at one point to the right of Dev, though? But that runs into the problem that Ireland didn't have a history of colonialism, but wasn't strongly concerned about what happened outside the Irish Question, no?
 
On another note I can see a scenario where a surviving reformed USSR attracts a bunch of western Nazbols and Yockey acolytes seeing the USSR as a white bulwark against the Sino-Muslim hordes.
And like some of the alt-right's opinions of Russia OTL, it would have little to no resemblance to actual conditions in that country (for example, Russia is one of the more immigration-permissive countries, to say nothing about all of the ethnic minorities who have long been Russian citizens).

It reminds one of tankies and their obsession with Cuba that exceeds even the enthusiasm of even the Cuban Communist Party. I suppose extremists always need their utopia on earth that they'll never really visit.
 
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