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Title: Meet anarcho-fascism
Author: Dmitry Mrachnik
Date: 14 September 2017
Language: en
Topics: fascism, criticism and critique, the alt-right
Source: Retrieved on 5th February 2022 from https://www.nihilist.li/2017/09/14/meet-anarcho-fascism/

Dmitry Mrachnik

Meet anarcho-fascism

Today the demagogic label «anarcho-fascism» can be considered quite

real. It cannot be called a doctrine, although there are some attempts

to give it an ideological justification. Today anarcho-fascism is a set

of beliefs and practices within the movement of alternative right.

You can see an anarcho-fascism complex within other currents in some

cases that are considered as leftist views and in fact, anarchistic. It

has anything in common with anarchism actually and almost nothing — with

fascism in accordance with commonly accepted meanings.

The anarcho-fascism popularizer is Jack Donovan, a well-known ideologist

and the Alt Right esthet. He is really keen on «male tribalism» —

rebellious banditry based on affinity groups and strong male love.

As well as other alt rightists Donovan is dying to see the United States

dissolution and it will establish the rule of the gangs and revive the

traditions of the good old Wild West days. In his opinion, for this

purpose, it is necessary to organize a powerful and skilful grass-roots

movement capable of surviving the chaos after the state collapse.

«In a failed state, we go back to Wild West rules, and America becomes a

place for men again — a land full of promise and possibility that

rewards daring and ingenuity, a place where men can restart the world»,

— Donovan said.

Obviously, his «anarchy» is not social, but post-apocalyptic, barbaric,

growing on the ruins of civilization like a parasitic fungus on the

felled timber. Anarcho-fascism suggests that the state must be

demolished for the sake of the idealized male warriors power, who will

revive the early Middle Ages valor and morals.

In his essay «Anarcho-Fascism» Donovan manipulates skillfully the

provisions of anarchism and fascism, deriving a special metaphysics. He

cleans fascism of the totalitarian police state, omnipotent bureaucracy

and repression, looking for a «primitive spirit» in it. According to

Donovan, the roots of fascism should be not sought in the Benito

Mussolini ideas or Catholic corporatists, but in ancient Italy, in the

Etruscan symbol of fascia — the ax among the twigs.

«The bound rods of the fasces represent strength and the authority of a

unified male collective. That’s its “primitive” appeal. True tribal

unity can’t be imposed from above. It’s an organic phenomenon. Profound

unity comes from men bound together by a red ribbon of blood», — Donovan

said.

That is why, according to Donovan the real «primitive fascism» is a

grassroots and branched «tribal» movement. The alt-rights ideologist

disputes the concept of Umberto Eco «Eternal Fascism», that nevertheless

corresponds to the definition of fascism as a political movement and a

state regime with a certain set of values. According to Donovan, all the

«evil» that we are used to associate with this totalitarian phenomenon

is the invention of the twentieth century based on Catholicism and

Marxism.

So, in other words, Donovan encourages us not to be ashamed of fascism,

reducing it to an attractive, for right-wing dissident, image of free

unions of strong men who are ready to overthrow the government to return

the society to a military democracy state

«New, pure warrior-gangs can only rise in anarchic opposition to the

corrupt, feminist, anti-tribal, degraded institutions of the established

order. Manhood can only be rebooted by the destruction of their future,

and the creation of new futures for new or reborn tribes of men. It is

too late for conservatism. For the majority of men, only occupied

structures and empty gestures remain. The political position of The Way

of Men is «anarcho-fascist». This anarcho-fascism is not an end; it is

hungry for a new beginning», — Donovan said.

The complex of anarcho-fascism without alt-rights can only differ

rhetorically, but its values are the same indeed: anarchy as an

opportunity for the idealized power of gangs. It can be served under the

guise of free alliances and other phrases that sound «anarchic».

So, let’s enumerate the basic views and values inherent in

anarcho-fascism:

a only, purely masculine way of thinking that leaves no place for

different behavior;

misogyny and homophobia, as a hatred for everything «non-masculine»;

the idealization of the gang as the best community for «real men», a

relaxed attitude toward crime as a way of life, and also resultant

leader principle;

disbelief in progress, contempt for the individual freedom and

equality principles, unless they are backed up by brute force;

the best way to society «cleansing» from «weak and pampered» is the

chaos idealization and the «war of all against all»;

the desirable world order is primitivism and barbarism on the ruins of

civilization;

in the case of alt-right is white nationalism (anti-Semitism,

Islamophobia, racial segregation, separation of white people in

different ethnic quasi-states).

The anarcho-fascism and alt-rights aren’t into oppressed struggle for

rights, in general, because its audience is the «White Trash» surfing in

the Internet, inspired by the resentment feeling. They do not need

equality or justice but barbaric power at least a little.