Analýza současného pravicového extremismu
Current Political Extremism in the Czech Republic

Summary/Abstract: In the course of the nineties, the ideological equipment of the racist skinheads was repeatedly re-furbished. Starting from the original Czech nationalism, anti-German chauvinism and xenophobic racism pointed essentially against the Roma, they gradually borrowed from their foreign partners ideas of anti-Semitism, pan-Aryanism and of the united "white Europe". The social facet of neo-Nazi ideology also underwent some adjustment towards traditionally leftist themes such as exploitation, struggle against capitalism or environmentalism. In the course of the nineties, such ideas were propagated exclusively by undercover fanzines. Around 2000, the advance into political life led to an attempt to openly disguise neo-Nazi ideology into its variant that would be generally more aeceptable, but would lose neither its activist explosivity, nor its comprehensibility of the sympathizers. After years of underground activities, in the end of nineties situation has changed. From its emergency, neo-Nazi movement came through some interesting changes. Probably most interesting ones were the changes around 1998-2000 and then after 2001 when one part of right-wing extremists tried to go from mostly subcultural underground to normal politics and then fell back to subcultural underground again. The "Vlastenecká republikánská strana" (Patriotic Republican Party, VRS) split off the Republicans and, in 2001, threw open its doors to neo-Nuzis in order to be transformed into a new political subject, the NSB. Ever since 1998, neo-Nazis have heen applying themselves with considerable effort to the goal of estahlishment of a political party, which would represent their views and opinions. All these attempts failed and this led to a tactical change. On 3rd March 2001, a congress of the VRS accepted into the party members of the former NA and NO organizations and the ensuing hody was re-named NSB. The program was based on National-Socialist activism, anti-establishment radicalism and militant rhetoric. After 8 month of functioning the party split up and all ideas of true neo-Nazi party in the Czech Republic failed. From 2001 neo-Nazi movement fell down back to underground. gmuml.

• Details
• Contents