Left-Extremist Endeavours

Failure to forge a first link
with the "left wing"
transformed into a right-extremist theoretician - MAHLER published
a "Canonical Declaration on the Movement of 1968" in
"Staatsbriefe". In that Declaration, the authors wished to make
clear that this political movement had risen neither for the Eastern
nor for the Western community of shared values, but had
stood up for the right of every people to national-revolutionary
and social-revolutionary self-liberation. The German "Sixty-Eight"
had, after National-Socialism, been the second attempt at a
revolution against the world rule of capital 82) . With their "Canonical
Declaration", the signatories intended to re-interpret the
1968 Movement in a national-revolutionary sense in order to
mobilize former supporters of the "New Left" of that time for a
swing to the "right". However, this suggestion, strange and unreasonable
as it appeared, met with fierce objection. 83) .
Against this background, defeat must be assumed also as regards
the hope formulated by other right-extremist intellectuals
"to forge a first link with the left-wing" - as put forward by Jürgen
SCHWAB in the NPD organ "Deutsche Stimme" and in the
magazine "Signal" - as an opening in terms of a policy of alliances
and ideology 84) . While right and left-wing extremists have
a number of common interests in terms of content and structure
85) as regards rejection of the democratic constitutional state, it
may be assumed that the strong political reservations of "leftwingers"
will also in future prevent a rapprochement between the
two camps.
Demarcation Also, there was no further erosion of the demarcation between
democratic-conservative and right-extremist journalists/publicists.
Over the past years, the process of blurring of that demarcation
was credited as a partial success to right-extremist intellectuals.
Only a very small number of democratic-conservative politicians,
journalists and scholars appeared as authors in right-extremist
publication organs and anthologies or included authors of the
right-extremist camp in their concepts for anthologies. There are
relatively few conservatives ready to engage in such cooperation.
"Junge Freiheit"
In this context, appraisal of the weekly "Junge Freiheit" ("Young
Freedom") is problematic. In addition to democratic-conservative
authors, also right-wing extremists are provided with a forum in
the form of articles, interviews and commentaries. In "Junge
Freiheit", Alain de BENOIST - listed as a permanent staff member
in the weekly's masthead, and who is regarded as the "chief ideologist"
of the French "New Right" - expressed his rejection of
democratic constitutional states: he would prefer a nationalcommunist
regime to a Western-liberal system at any time 86) .
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