(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #253 (Oct) - Read:
Jacques Leclercq, "(Our) Neo-Nazis and ultra-right" (fr, it, pt)
[machine translation]
Impressive is surely the word that comes when you have the book by Jacques Leclercq hands.
He is first of its significant size (528 pages anyway) but also by the careful observation
of the microcosm of the work of the Hexagon ultradroite in its smallest details. ---- The
historical period and the number of organizations, groups, factions or sects is colossal.
This is both the strength and weakness of this book, completeness is interesting but it is
quickly lost in acronyms or players names. ---- Similarly, we sometimes wonder about the
space devoted to certain microgroupuscules that should not have more than fifteen members
so that larger movements are hardly overflown (this error is relative since other works of
author are devoted precisely to these groups). ---- However, it is undeniable that the
staggering of debates that live in this policy bangs lets out a simplistic view that we
could have these groups and dynamics that drive them.
It would be a serious political mistake to consider that there is no doctrine or that they
are built on a theoretical or philosophical inconsistency. While these groups
proliferating on the endemic weakness of the current labor movement but as Korsch said
about Nazism: "The fascist trying to accomplish with the new revolutionary methods, and in
a significantly different shape, the social and political tasks that the parties and
reformist unions promised to run without being able to achieve in the given historical
conditions. "[1] It is therefore a force that has a form of autonomy and a social project"
alternative "within the capitalist framework. Their projects are naturally abhorrent to
all views and read their texts can only strengthen us in the importance of the
anti-fascist struggle.
This importance should force us to precisely understand their logic to better fight
instead of falling into the anathemas and easy shortcuts, examining more closely the
theoretical debates and quarrels chapel.
We understand that the extreme right is far from being a monolith and not just a simple
matter of ego of its leaders. A work which in my opinion is therefore aimed at all those
who want to deepen their knowledge of these groups but which is hardly affordable for
newcomers that could get lost in the maze of acronyms, names and events.
Sin Vincente (AL Brussels)
Jacques Leclercq (Our) Neo-Nazis and ultra-right, L'Harmattan, 2015, 528 pages, 49 euros.
[1] Karl Korsch, War and Revolution, available at:
https://bataillesocialiste.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/korsch-la-guerre-et-la-revolution-1941.pdf
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lire-Jacques-Leclercq-Nos-Neo
