Left-Extremist Endeavours

Decline of intellectual
publication organs
Right-extremist activities
by Horst MAHLER
European Studies Society"), already in existence since 1972,
and the organization "Synergon Deutschland", founded in 1995
as the German section of the Europe-wide, national-revolutionary
organization "Europäische Synergien" ("European Synergies").
The two organizations have co-operated for some time, but
without success: for instance, due to its journalistic and organizational
weakness, the monthly bulletin "DESG-inform" often
appeared only every two, or even every three, months. Also,
seminars in Germany and abroad were attended by very few
members from Germany so that, in comparison to the other sections
of "European Synergies", the German group is to be considered
underdeveloped in intellectual, organizational and personnel
terms.
The little interest shown by other right-wing extremists in national-revolutionary
intellectuals is surprising in view of the increasing
use made by them of terms and notions of this ideological
variant of right-wing extremism - such as "anti-Americanism",
"anticapitalism" and "liberation nationalism". Obviously - and this
is also borne out by the low theoretic niveau - such concepts
were taken over by the other camps of right-wing extremism
without any direct influence by national-revolutionary intellectuals.
Overall, the right-extremist camp continues to feel intellectually
overtaxed by theoretic work. This is in part due to the development
of a number of publication organs which are affiliated to
intellectual right-wing extremism: the originally bi-monthly journal
"Signal. Das patriotische Magazin" appeared only on a quarterly
basis. Its editor Manfred ROUHS increasingly concentrated on
Internet commentaries referring to current affairs rather than on
theoretical work. Similarly, "Sleipnir. Zeitschrift für Kultur,
Geschichte und Politik" ["Sleipnir. Journal for Culture, History and
Politics"] and the monthly journal "Staatsbriefe" often appeared
later than scheduled or only on a bi-monthly basis; its articles are
written by regular authors whose number has rather dwindled in
the meantime. None of these publications contributed towards
ideological and strategic innovation.
To these trends towards decline, the personal commitment of the
former left-wing extremist Horst MAHLER stands in remarkable
contrast. He not only appeared as a speaker at events staged by
the various right-extremist organizations, but also published
interviews and comments in the various right-extremist
publication organs, and did not even shun contacts with the neo-
Nazi camp. Together with other former members of the "Sozialistischer
Deutscher Studentenbund" (SDS - "Socialist German
Students’ Union") of the movement of the generation of ’68 - for
instance Dr. Reinhold OBERLERCHER who in the meantime has
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