Two books I can recommend right off the bat. Read Matthew Lyons' "Insurgents Supremacists" for a good analysis of the far-right: https://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=924 …
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Lyons notes that each far-right has two things in common-- (1) they want to replace the current government, and (2) they believe that hierarchies are capital-N Natural and possibly even desirable. Note that it doesn't say anything about being a white nationalist.
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This is why groups like the Proud Boys, which aren't explicitly white nationalist, will still organize with the 211 Bootboys or the American Guard, which the ADL calls "hardcore white supremacists." They're both reactionary nationalists who love hierarchies.
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But even though their hierarchies aren't less damaging than racism-- the Proud Boys are Islamophobic and intensely transphobic-- they also don't mind organizing alongside white nationalists. And so, eventually, white nationalism will begin to seep into their ideology, too.
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The other book is Mark Bray's "Antifa: The anti-fascist handbook": https://www.amazon.com/Antifa-Anti-Fascist-Handbook-Mark-Bray/dp/1612197035 … Read it, and you'll see that the anti-fascist struggle isn't just with the alt-right, it's with the state itself as an instrument of repression, too.
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And that most anti-fascists see their fight with the far-right as a rehearsal for the showdown with a totalitarian state. We need to smash hierarchies before we can build a better world, but the goal is always to build, not to destroy. That's very broad, but does it make sense?
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Cool! Check out those books, and if you do get a chance to read them, feel free to DM me to let me know your thoughts, too. 
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