Published October 21, 2021 at 10.40
Culture. Five years ago, the right-wing thinker and author Joakim Andersen wrote the book Ur ruinerna, in which he portrayed the then young alternative right. In a newly published text, he returns to the movement, which he believes was broken above all by the establishment's increased repression.
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Andersen, who has contributed a large number of texts in Fria Tider, states that the far right was really on the offensive in 2017.
“The far right was shaped by its victories, which during the period were unexpectedly many,” he writes, taking Trump's election victory and the accurate and viral memes that ran with “cuckservatives” as examples of how opponents were initially taken to bed by the movement's progress. p>
“The still relatively free internet was an important factor behind the rise and success of the far right. So was the break with the Republican establishment's liberal 'right', a break that lay in time and coincided with the Trump phenomenon”.
< Andersen states that the offensive approach, the interest in self-improvement and the unwillingness to have "enemies on the right" were other success factors, but that these strategies also had inherent risks.
In his now five-year-old book, Andersen stated that the movement can be faced with several potential threats, among them infiltration of FBI agents and the like. A prediction that turned out to be justified after the picture became clear of what happened during the so-called storming of the Capitol 2020.
However, the far right experienced that the power elite did not hesitate to take measures that were previously considered foreign in a democracy. And since it is not possible to run a political movement with closed social media accounts and closed bank accounts, the liberal establishment has almost completely managed to stifle the far right today.
“A decisive factor was the extensive repression that Trump, Brexit and “The 'American spring' of which the far right was a part has today been replaced by clearer totalitarian tendencies and advanced positions for anti-popular elites,” says Andersen. The alternative right was hit hard by repression, but Andersen highlights Marx's parable of the “old mole” who tirelessly digs his passages beneath the surface. The liberal establishment did succeed in killing the opposition, but on the other hand was forced to talk about itself as good democrats and legitimate IT entrepreneurs to sound hollow for a long time to come.
“Today, this means not least that the crisis of legitimacy progresses, deepens and erodes the foundation of the system from within, regardless of whether the establishment media reports on it or not “, states Joakim Andersen.