Desni ekstremizam, radikalizam i zapadnoeuropska Nova desnica
RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM, RADICALISM AND THE WEST EUROPEAN NEW RIGHT

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of this article is the concept of political extremism characterized by the rejection of fundamental values of the democratic constitutional state. Following a definition of the structural traits of right-wing extremism, the author sharply distinguishes it from the related concept of right-wing radicalism. Furthermore, the concept of so-called New Right is analyzed, as well as the presence thereof in France, Italy, Great Britain and Germany. This is a fitting concept for description of intellectual currents striving towards an ideological- strategic renewal of right-wing extremism. Namely, an application of extremist traits to the activities of the New Right, and, in particular, an analysis of ethnopluralism as its essential line of thought, leads to the conclusion that it stretches into the sphere of right-wing extremism. At the same time, emphasis is laid on its function as ideological basis and means of connection with the social environment which, precisely due to its “political mimicry” tactics, represents a danger to democracy.

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