by waegari » Sat 06 Jun 2009, 12:20:56
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Munqi', 'J')ust how "extreme" are these right wing parties?
Well, for one: in Germany there's the NPD, which is known fo its nazi affiliations. They are on the rise in the east of Germany. I've studied those, I've met with people who have been harassed, and there's plenty of German websites to inform you on these idiots from a strictly non-partisan democratic view.
http://npd-blog.info/http://www.mut-gegen-rechte-gewalt.de/http://www.netz-gegen-nazis.de/Latest news: Amazon does not want to have anything to do with the NPD anymore
Plenty of books on the NPD, by the way. Just give it a read, if you know any German, and then you will know.
Over here in the Netherlands we have the PVV, the Liberty Party. Only recently a leading party member found it very funny to suggest one tv journalist should have her nose broken, through violent action that is. Party leader Geert Wilders calls his party a posse. Just so you know. There's increasingly a suggestion of violence coming from those ranks. That doesn't seem very democratic to me.
This party is not even a party in the regular sense of the word: you cannot become a member there. They're all organised around their leader. Their Leader. You know. So there are no internal checks and balances there. Mr Wilders determines what's right and wrong. Which is one big difference with the NSDAP, of which one could at least become a member. Furthermore, social policies of this party are directed only at furthering the cause of law and order. Any social justice, if they had their say, would be abolished, any sort of subsidies would be. Now, this is even worse than the Nazi's. The nazi's at least built up a welfare state, though based on ravage and plunder.
The PVV are no fascists. They are worse than that in some respects. The one difference is: they could never start a war, because nobody would be very much impressed by the Dutch military.
The argument that calling some parties extreme right is some sort of leftist overreaction has been uttered in these parts so very often already, it's getting stale. Even our prime minister, who is a christian democrat, only yesterday said, it would be nigh to impossible to build a coalition with the PVV.
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