This needs to be updated. Links to YWC don't all work. On the other hand, the SPLC has some good overviews of groups like League of the South. I'm not clear just which of these groups/individuals I should focus on.
- ISLAMO-FASCISM? Paul Berman, who published Terror and Liberalism (an excellent analysis of western responses to 9/11) wrote "The Philosopher of Islamic Terror" in 2003. It provides an analysis of Sayyid Qutb's writings. Is radical Islamist terror an expression of a type of "Islamofascism", as Christopher Hitchens insists?
- CHRISTO-FASCISM? Chris Hedges recently published American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, a study of Dominionist Christians in the US. In 2007 he published a piece in Harper's Magazine: "Soldiers of Christ: Feeling the Hate with the National Religious Broadcasters". Here's another piece he wrote--"The Radical Christian Right is Built on Suburban Dispair". Anthony Dick of the National Review counters that the dropping the "F-Bomb" is inappropriate. More literature on the Dominionists. This concerns a group called Joel's Army--"Arming for Armageddon".
- ANARCHIST FASCISM? There has been some recent interest in the development of groups calling themselves National Anarchists. According to one author, National Anarchists simply seek to "rebrand" fascism. In the case of this particular brand of extremism, it's worthwhile to look at Wikipedia as well (and consider following some of the links). Here is the link to the National-Anarchist network--the National Anarchist manifesto is on the right side of the page.
- COLLEGE FASCISM? The SPLC accuses this college group, "Youth for Western Civilization" of flirting with racism. Their article is a HERE. Their own website is HERE (OOPS... since last year, they've made it a bit more difficult to find them). The Wikipedia entry provides a good introduction to the organization, and they even made it onto FOX news as well as MSNBC. More information is available through this site and at the Chronicle of Higher Education. Also note that YWC has a Facebook page--dig deep and type it into Facebook--there are multiple chapters and you should check out the photos--what do you learn from their iconography?
- "CONSERVATIVE" FASCISM? Anders Behring Breivik acknowledges that he's "conservative", but he also says that Nazism is a "failed" ideology. Could he still be a fascist? Anne Applebaum (who wrote about Stalin's system of Gulags in the 90s) thinks the "racist" angle of much reporting is missing a core element of his world-view, the conviction that government is illegitimate --something extremists on the left also believe. Michael Burleigh comes right out and warns his readers that Breivik represents "Fascism behind a mask of morality". Was he a fascist or "something else" [be aware, this source is sketchy]? Breivik lays out his world-view in a 1500 page manifesto available on the MOODLE (under the link that brought you here) [don't try to read it all--but look at the table of contents and poke around. Don't forget to check out the photos he took of himself in "battle-dress" uniform of the Knights Templar.] Here's an overview of his beliefs in the British Mail "Vlad the Impaler was a Genius".
