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Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire
A major study of movements that strive to overthrow the U.S. government, that often claim to be anti-imperialist and sometimes even anti-capitalist yet also consciously promote inequality, hierarchy, and domination, generally along explicitly racist, sexist, and homophobic lines. Revolutionaries of the far right: insurgent supremacists.

In this book, Matthew N. Lyons takes readers on a tour of neonazis and Christian theocrats, by way of the patriot movement, the LaRouchites, and the alt-right. Supplementing this, thematic sections explore specific dimensions of far-right politics, regarding gender, decentralism, and anti-imperialism.

Intervening directly in debates within left and antifascist movements, Lyons examines both the widespread use and abuse of the term “fascism,” and the relationship between federal security forces and the paramilitary right. His final chapter offers a preliminary analysis of the Trump presidential administration relationship with far-right politics and the organized far right’s shifting responses to it.

Both for its analysis and as a guide to our opponents, Insurgent Supremacists promises to be a powerful tool in organizing to resist the forces at the cutting edge of reaction today.

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Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire
A major study of movements that strive to overthrow the U.S. government, that often claim to be anti-imperialist and sometimes even anti-capitalist yet also consciously promote inequality, hierarchy, and domination, generally along explicitly racist, sexist, and homophobic lines. Revolutionaries of the far right: insurgent supremacists.

In this book, Matthew N. Lyons takes readers on a tour of neonazis and Christian theocrats, by way of the patriot movement, the LaRouchites, and the alt-right. Supplementing this, thematic sections explore specific dimensions of far-right politics, regarding gender, decentralism, and anti-imperialism.

Intervening directly in debates within left and antifascist movements, Lyons examines both the widespread use and abuse of the term “fascism,” and the relationship between federal security forces and the paramilitary right. His final chapter offers a preliminary analysis of the Trump presidential administration relationship with far-right politics and the organized far right’s shifting responses to it.

Both for its analysis and as a guide to our opponents, Insurgent Supremacists promises to be a powerful tool in organizing to resist the forces at the cutting edge of reaction today.

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Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire

Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire

by Matthew N. Lyons
Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire

Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge to State and Empire

by Matthew N. Lyons

Overview

A major study of movements that strive to overthrow the U.S. government, that often claim to be anti-imperialist and sometimes even anti-capitalist yet also consciously promote inequality, hierarchy, and domination, generally along explicitly racist, sexist, and homophobic lines. Revolutionaries of the far right: insurgent supremacists.

In this book, Matthew N. Lyons takes readers on a tour of neonazis and Christian theocrats, by way of the patriot movement, the LaRouchites, and the alt-right. Supplementing this, thematic sections explore specific dimensions of far-right politics, regarding gender, decentralism, and anti-imperialism.

Intervening directly in debates within left and antifascist movements, Lyons examines both the widespread use and abuse of the term “fascism,” and the relationship between federal security forces and the paramilitary right. His final chapter offers a preliminary analysis of the Trump presidential administration relationship with far-right politics and the organized far right’s shifting responses to it.

Both for its analysis and as a guide to our opponents, Insurgent Supremacists promises to be a powerful tool in organizing to resist the forces at the cutting edge of reaction today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781629635118
Publisher: PM Press
Publication date: 06/01/2018
Series: Kerseplebedeb
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Matthew N. Lyons has been writing about right-wing politics for over 25 years. His work focuses on the interplay between right-wing movements and systems of oppression, and responses to these movements by leftists, liberals, and the state. He writes regularly for Three Way Fight, a radical antifascist blog, and his work has also appeared in the Guardian, New Politics, Socialism and Democracy, teleSUR, Upping the Anti, and other publications. Lyons is cotrustee of the Lorraine Hansberry Literary Trust, which stewards the literary legacy of the late playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry.

Table of Contents

Introduction i

Acknowledgements xix

Part I Ideological Currents

1 Neonazis 3

2 Theocrats 27

3 The Patriot Movement 41

4 The Alt-Right 56

5 The LaRouche Network 83

Part II Neglected Themes

6 Gender and Sexuality 93

7 Anti-Imperialism 123

8 Decentralism 144

Part III Partners, Rivals, Opponents

9 Federal Security Forces and the Paramilitary Right 163

10 Leftists, Liberals, and the Specter of Fascism 181

11 Trump's Presidency and the Far Right 195

Conclusion: Disloyalty in Motion 219

Appendix: Two Ways of Looking at Fascism 227

Endnotes 262

Selected Bibliography 321

Index 327

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