National-anarchism

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National-anarchism is a radical right-wing[3][4][5][6] nationalist ideology which advocates racial separatism, racial nationalism, ethnic nationalism, and racial purity.[6][7][8] National-anarchists syncretize ethnic nationalism with anarchism, mainly in their support for a stateless society, while rejecting anarchist social philosophy.[6][7][8] The main ideological innovation of national-anarchism is its anti-state palingenetic ultranationalism.[3] National-anarchists advocate homogeneous communities in place of the nation state. National-anarchists claim that those of different ethnic or racial groups would be free to develop separately in their own tribal communes while striving to be politically horizontal, economically non-capitalist, ecologically sustainable, and socially and culturally traditional.[6][8]

Although the term national-anarchism dates back as far as the 1920s, the contemporary national-anarchist movement has been put forward since the late 1990s by British neo-Nazi Troy Southgate, who positions it as being "beyond left and right".[6] Scholars who have studied national-anarchism conclude that it represents a further evolution in the thinking of the radical right rather than an entirely new dimension on the political spectrum.[3][4][5] National-anarchism is considered by other anarchists[according to whom?] as being a rebranding of fascism and an oxymoron.

National-anarchism has elicited skepticism and outright hostility from both left-wing and far-right critics.[7][8] Critics accuse national-anarchists of being ethnonationalists who promote a communitarian and racialist form of ethnic and racial separatism while "wanting" the militant chic of calling themselves anarchists without historical and philosophical baggage that would be said to have to accompany such a claim, including the anti-racist egalitarian anarchist philosophy and the contributions of Jewish anarchists.[7][8] Most scholars agree that implementing national-anarchism would not result in an expansion of freedom and describe it as an authoritarian anti-statism that would result in authoritarianism and oppression, only on a smaller scale.[9]

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  3. ^ a b c Griffin 2003.
  4. ^ a b Goodrick-Clarke 2003.
  5. ^ a b Sykes 2005.
  6. ^ a b c d e Macklin 2005.
  7. ^ a b c d Sunshine 2008.
  8. ^ a b c d e Sanchez 2009.
  9. ^ Lyons 2011.