Original scientific paper
Neo-Conservatism, New Right Wings, the Right Radicalism, and Foreigners in Western Europe
Anđelko Milardović
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author is engaged in a methodical examination of the phenomena of neo-conservatism, new right wings, and the right radicalism with regard to foreigners. Although these belong to the so-called right political phenomenology, it is necessary to make a distinction between their specific and significant differences. An attempt has been made to determine differences between the American and the European varieties of neo-conservatism, with special reference to the German one and its relation towards foreigners. On the other hand, by separating the phenomenon of new right wings from neo-conservatism an impreciseness and confusion of concepts (something quite common) may have been avoided. In this sense, new right wings have emerged outside the neo-conservative cultural circle. Their stance towards foreigners is epitomized in the biologism-related racist stream and the Thule seminar group. In the focus of the author's interest is the right radicalism vis-à-vis foreigners relation, which is illustrated by the example of FR of Germany. The organisation- and communication-related structure of Neo-Nazi groups, as well as xenophobic tendencies in their political ideology have been focused on. The problem of xenophobia is presented in a structural-anthropological and civilization-related context. There follows an examination of the causes of and preconditions fox the appearance of xenophobia in German society, and then an explication of the xenophobic point of “foreigners as everybody's culprits”.
Keywords
neo-conservativism; new right wing; right radicalism; foreigners; Western Europe; FR of Germany
Hrčak ID:
128664
URI
Publication date:
31.12.1987.
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