Wednesday 16 December 2009

Neo Nazis

Medawar would be interested to see comments from anyone who can cite incidences of persons with neo-nazi connections, joining other radical or campaigning groups. Especially if several neo-nazis, perhaps from a variety of named groups (and there are several), all happen to join the same local campaigning group. More especially still, if this happens when the local group's normal core membership is in jail for "civil disobedience" or actual criminal offences. (If you know of somebody other than the neo-nazis doing this, please feel free to post a comment, but look through the blog for the right, or nearest, category post, first.)

It is possible that some local chapters of national campaign groups might become effective colonies of the far right in one or more regions, even if nationally neo-nazism is the last thing the movement wants to represent.

There has been debate about neo nazis joining the animal rights movement, but Medawar knows that the Nazis themselves latched onto whatever the local cause was in different parts of Germany, and happliy supported diametrically opposed causes in different German states (Lander), for the sake of having uniform support and influence across the country.

Comment, too, if your knowledge is not as specific as all that, but if you have noticed the political colour of a national campaign vary markedly from one locality to another. That could be a useful clue.

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