Could you suggest a far-right view which does have theoretical, ideological depth and complexity?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Like I said, we need to ensure we're both talking about the same thing when we refer to far-right. For example, elements of classical fascism overlap with element of socialism. I'm interested in a moral framework approach as well as a sociopolitical historical approach.
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Replying to @annaellis_net @HPluckrose
How would you define far-right? Academic references are fine, I've got access to the university's online library.
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Replying to @annaellis_net
I don't think we'll find a single academic source which defines the far right tho many which look at aspects of it from Nazism, to KKK, to ethnonationalism, to antisemitic conspiracy theories to religious fundamentalism to extreme libertarians who want to make war on government.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
My issue is this: anti-semitism is prevalent across a linear political spectrum, tending to coagulate around the extremist fringes of both Left and Right. Ditto ethnonationalism (http://m4bl.org , SA political parties, etc.) Ditto AnCap/AnSoc. Horseshoe theory ftw.
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Replying to @annaellis_net
See. Now we can't have a conversation about extremism because we've got bogged down. In reality, we all know extreme versions of leftism and rightism exist and are known as far-left and far-right and can point to examples of it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I'd suggest we *can* have a conversation about extremism. It's arguable that shoehorning the subject into a linear analogy no longer works as our understanding of the political spectrum is now more akin to that of a radar chart.
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Replying to @annaellis_net @HPluckrose
Assuming the radar chart approach, we could define key ideological points and then measure/assess ideologies in a a multivariate approach.
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Replying to @annaellis_net
We could certainly write an essay defining extremism, yes, but for the purpose of the context of this Twitter conversation, we have got stuck. I'm left back where I was which is saying that far-left extremists are citing current scholarship I can get my teeth into, not far-right
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Replying to @HPluckrose
As you've pointed out elsewhere on this increasingly bifurcated thread, that's almost certainly due to the lack of opportunity for academics to produce that research. I'm sure far-right extremists are citing scholarship, but whether it's either current or peer-reviewed is the q.
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You are? None of them are citing it to me. I get very bored, very fast coz nothing of substance. But I won't die on that hill. I might have missed them. It is the reason I am focused on the far-left tho. Their extremist loons are accessible and often published & I can address it
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